a friend introduced me to crayfishing a few weeks back, we used his nets, one that was a home made jobby from a bicycle wheel, I liked the idea, but thought I could improve on it a little,
first I aquired a couple of old wheels
then cut all the spokes out, leaving me with just the rim's
then I used sparrow netting (it's handy being a full time pestie as this is free) to form a domed net by using a dustbin lid to give me a bowl shape once the net was cut to size and secured
I used bond wire which is 2mm stainless (used in bird proofing) to form the four lifting wires, that stand in a pyramid shape above the net, along with an 6" peice of 1" dowel, used as a float, to keep the wires upright when submerged in the water
I also took the time to apply to the EA for crayfish "tags" for my nets, thus keeping within the law
the first trip out, we caught just shy of 200 crayfish in 2 hours, this time the tempreture had dropped a little, but I wanted to test the traps out, and I think we did well, considering our first trip we were using around 7 drop nets, my second trip, we used just the 2 homemade nets, and caught 84 in 1 hour
keeping them in wet sacks
first I aquired a couple of old wheels
then cut all the spokes out, leaving me with just the rim's
then I used sparrow netting (it's handy being a full time pestie as this is free) to form a domed net by using a dustbin lid to give me a bowl shape once the net was cut to size and secured
I used bond wire which is 2mm stainless (used in bird proofing) to form the four lifting wires, that stand in a pyramid shape above the net, along with an 6" peice of 1" dowel, used as a float, to keep the wires upright when submerged in the water
I also took the time to apply to the EA for crayfish "tags" for my nets, thus keeping within the law
the first trip out, we caught just shy of 200 crayfish in 2 hours, this time the tempreture had dropped a little, but I wanted to test the traps out, and I think we did well, considering our first trip we were using around 7 drop nets, my second trip, we used just the 2 homemade nets, and caught 84 in 1 hour
keeping them in wet sacks