Survival fishing. Fish trap.

[Sol Invictus]

I have full permission to reproduce this work here on this board by its original creator, and have been asked only to share it about freely. I used to know him via a group of us who used to go off into the wilds for a week at a time and just practise practise practise.

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This is not just a SITX idea, but for all those times when times might be hard and a few fresh fish would go down a treat as 'extras' on the table.

This idea is super cheap, effective, and so simple to make its actually real fun. The end result is a fish trap that makes lines almost redundant if you get one of these up and running.

(I tried and tested this out on a private river, and do not know the legality of these in countries where you may read this, so if you use it, check first!).

So what do we need?

1 large float.
2 pieces of say 3 feet by 2 feet wooden / plastic board.
for the top and bottom.
5 pieces of 2 by 2 for the vertical supports.
A large roll of fine mesh chicken wire.
Some single strand wire.
1 old coke bottle.
A few yards of twine / rope / para cord for an anchor and retrival means.
Some cammo netting if you have it, if not, use natural available cammo i.e. leaves and dirt / branches.

So, heres what we do.

We place one board on the floor and attach our pieces of two by two at ech corner and one in the centre like so.


We then mesh three side of it like so....




and taking our coke bottle as a guide size, we make a mesh funnel, and then with our final side we cut out the hole and attach the funnel as so....



We then have a trap looking like this, which just needs baiting and a lid on it!



So, for the lid, we just seal it down tight, adding a float so it doesn't sink to the bottom (unless you want crabs or lobster / crayfish of course!) and then throw our camouflage over it. We then secure it with our rope, and then leave it be for a few days.

Believe me when i say you will not believe how many fish you have inside your trap once you go back to check it.

I did this in a private river, and i kid you not I got dozens, a larder full in one sitting. Great for leaving be at coming back at a later time for a table full of food.

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Possibly the easiest, quickest to build and most effective trap i have ever come across. I have tried it, and it works so well i almost felt guilty about it when i hauled in nearly 30lb of fish (returned almost half, ate and shared the rest).