Thread: cricket trap

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!