Thread: cricket trap

can anyone advise me on how to make a cricket trap and what to bait it with?

thanks
fair weather

Don't know if this is what your looking for but I googled and found this. I do know they love bread. Click on gadgets and you will see a link to the trap. If you google cricket traps you also find some other ideas

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I am going to have to build one of those, Blackhawk. It would sure beat paying 4 cents each for crickets. You know how fast four grandsons can use up crickets?

I have heard,never done it, to buy a loaf of hard unsliced bread, cut in half and remove most of the soft inside, cut a small hole in one end and hold together with rubber bands or something. Put it out in the yard with a cover and the crickets will get in it. Have also heard black crickets are not as good as the gray ones.

I have never caught a fish using a yard (black) cricket... I have used em several times and not even get a nibble. Maybe my pond fish are just picky? I can use a brown cricket like you buy at the bait shop and have to hide behind a tree to bait my hook!

I agree with bobberstop. Black crickets are not a recommended bait for bluegills. Brown ones are different. I was told that the black gave off some form of chemical or smell when hooked that fish don't mess with them. I used them and never caught anything with them. Just a thought

I've Never Used Black Crickets Buy I Just Made Some Kind Of Cricket Trap And Baited It With Vanilla And Celery. You Said Lettece Didn't Have Any We'll See

get a cardboard tube from papers towels or toilet paper, cover one end with cloth or screen (use a rubberband to hold it on), put a couple pieces of bread in it, put it where the crickests are at night (somewhere where there is moisture)

bury a wide mouth jar at ground level along a fence row or near cover or where you see crickets may live. Put in a slice of apple and cover with a shingle or a piece of cardboard or plywood. It doesn't matter the color gills can't resist them.

Place a rock so they can get in!

Y'all must be fishing finiky Bream, here they are not at all predjudious, black ones are eaten just like the tan ones from the bait store.