any ideas for a diy fishtrap?

timrandlerv10 · #1 01/04/2008, 12:30 PM

i need to make one today, have access to HD and lowes and a marginally stocked lfs.

1 to 3 inch long fish--chromis mainly.

thanks!

tim

rgun2515 · #2 01/04/2008, 12:37 PM

I made a glass box with a sliding glass door connected to a fishing line. Put some food in it, and catch your fish...

Worked great for me... Just had to sit there and wait... Just like fishing...

webbstock · #3 01/04/2008, 01:13 PM

I had to catch a chromis and a clown. What I did is took a clear empty 2L Coke bottle, removed the label, washed it well then carefully cut the top off of it. I next cut the neck of the bottle down to a hole about 1.25 times larger than my fish, inverted that and stuck that in the other half of the bottle tied some string on it, so I could pull it out/keep everything in place and then put some food in it and left it in the tank. Fish swam in, wasn't able to get out. I based my idea on minnow traps that we used to use for fishing like these- http://www.stevesfishingsupplies.com...ages/G40_1.jpg