Walmart and Bass Pro sell Frabill traps. If you look on Youtube you will find countless videos on how to make your own with wire mesh. However, after getting bloody fingers making my own and paying $10 a piece at BPS, from now on I will pony up the cash at BPS.So whats the best trap to leave behind in the water to catch them and come back daily to empty it? I'm going to Pelee Island Canada (in the middle of lake Erie) in July for my annual family vacation. A couple years ago my FIL and I were invited out on a boat by my neighbor and we were using his crawdads to get monsters. He mentioned that he drops his trap in a nearby ditch/canal. Most of the island was swampland when first populated, and a series of canals and ditches drain the island with the help of pumphouses.
We cant get that cottage anymore so I want to take a trap this year to get the bigger fish that tend to ignore my nightcrawlers and lures. Suggestions?