Baiting a fish trap...

[gREEF stricken]

Greetings Saltwater Collective,

so I got a local acrylic shop to build me a neat little fish trap. Basically a 3" tube with one end closed and the other with a disk small enough to fit inside the other end with a dowel fastened to it so I can spin the dowel and the disk spins and voila the trap is closed like a butterfly valve on a carburetor. I'm trying to catch a domino damsel. And please don't hi-Jack this thread with a ton of cruel but more effective catch methods. We ALL hate these obnoxious little fish, we GET it. Well on my first go round I used frozen brine shrimp and it just want to float out and the little basterd simply nabs the floaties...my question is do have a solid bait choice that he'll SMELL and have go Investigate...??


thanks,
GS

 

[fishhuman]

Try chopped silversides

 

[MondoBongo]

You could try using something porous like a piece of breeder net or dip net, secured with a zip tie to keep the bait from floating out.

PE Myses shrimp may work well too. They are pretty funky.

 

[hogfanreefer]

I used a small chunk of frozen PE mysis. Takes a while to thaw and floats to the top of the trap.

 

[SDguy]

Put thawed PE Mysis in the trap, and close it. The fish will try harder and harder to get to the food. Then just open the door and it'll swim right in.