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ccbobber Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 2359 Location: The Island
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: BAIT |
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a good bait for traps is the 3-4 for a dollar small cans of cat food from the dollar store. just snap open the pop top, do not open all the way. lasts for about a week. good luck. _________________ ccbobber |
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Drake Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 1338 Location: Arkansas
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject: Traps |
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I live a lot further back in the canals than you. I do real well with the crabs and two traps just like yours.
Keep the crab trap it is worth it |
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Jestnomen Finger Mullet
Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 45
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| What do you use in your crab trap? |
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Drake Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 1338 Location: Arkansas
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject: traps |
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| I have found the best bait to be the remains of the fish i brought back that day. |
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topdog15 Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 4566 Location: Flour Bluff
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: traps |
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| Drake wrote: | | I have found the best bait to be the remains of the fish i brought back that day. |
Of course you're referring to non-game fish, right. It's illegal to use even the remains of a gamefish for bait. _________________ "Ya'll must eat a lot of fish" |
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barnaclebill Horse Mullet

Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 139
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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Shoot me an e-mail , mdbyerley@yahoo.com, and I'll show you a picture of my perch trap with instructions how to make it,, they're pretty easy and cheap to make.. _________________ It's a conspiracy, I tell ya,, There's no such thing as being too drunk to fish !!
e-mail: barnacle.dust@yahoo.com to order Barnacledust |
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rick sanders Horse Mullet
Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 103 Location: san antonio
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| You could try wrapping it in some smaller mesh wire like for a screen door. |
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Bluffer Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 4858 Location: The Bluff...Bring back the Porch!
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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To cold to catch bait now, all bait gone till spring.  _________________ -STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS!- |
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Jestnomen Finger Mullet
Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 45
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Dunno about that. I was catching mullet with my cast net last weekend. I see the perch picking at the dock pilings and my bait. |
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Bluffer Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 4858 Location: The Bluff...Bring back the Porch!
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| Jestnomen wrote: | | Dunno about that. I was catching mullet with my cast net last weekend. I see the perch picking at the dock pilings and my bait. |
Where at? have'nt seen any mullet in bay or surf since last Nov! _________________ -STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS!- |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:21 am Post subject: Re: Trap |
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| JeffWille wrote: | That is a crab trap not a pin perch trap.
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I figured. I have a piece of hardware cloth probably about that size that will fit on the bottom half of your trap which will allow it to work "double duty", you're welcome to it. twist tie it on, pull the trap up fast and you should be in business. or like the others said, keep the crab trap and go buy a perch trap. _________________
| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | | Thanks for the Memories, Ranger Rick. |
| ziacatcher wrote: | | However I bet if you were fishing naked Ranger Rick would have a problem with that |
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HighTide Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 552 Location: Padre Isles
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:22 am Post subject: |
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I still see mullet, lots of them, but they're the big ones. They are there every day at my back dock.
Back to catching perch: If you get a tiny hook you can catch all the perch you want in the canals. Just get a small hook, I don't know the size, but the curved part would barely go around a kitchen match. Put some fish bites or shrimp on it and you'll get all of the perch you want. Roy's carries those small hooks.
Good luck, _________________ HighTide
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If changes in barometric pressure cause your joints to hurt, do pilots and divers have a lot of joint pain? |
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frayed Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 1535 Location: Austin and a lil East of the Bluff
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:25 am Post subject: |
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Still mullet jumping in the canals, though activity has calmed down quite a bit from what you see in warmer months.
Didn't have any luck with the cast net. . . but I suck with the cast net so that doesn't mean a whole lot. Can't get the damn thing to hit the water completely spread out. _________________ Jeff
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| HighTide wrote: | | If you get a tiny hook you can catch all the perch you want in the canals. Just get a small hook, Good luck, |
to that end, get a sabiki rig and put tiny pieces of bait or even better tiny pieces of fish bites on there. you can slay the perch with that rig. sabiki's are only a dollar or two at academy, roys, or even HEB/wallyworld _________________
| Central Scrutinizer wrote: | | Thanks for the Memories, Ranger Rick. |
| ziacatcher wrote: | | However I bet if you were fishing naked Ranger Rick would have a problem with that |
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CARDSHARK Pony Mullet
Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 92 Location: SANANTONIO
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| You have to pull those traps out of the water fast,those perch are smart.They will all fly out of the trap single file.They are pretty smart. |
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