Took a week to make, many small wires to bend with a needle nose plyers, and nothing like this to model after on the internet. I found some info/videos on how to make a blue crab trap out of standard chicken wire to get some ideas. I eyeballed everything and shaped it up in my spare time after work, a few hours a night.
Trap is 24"x20"x6"tall, has three tunnels and a large bait pen in the middle. The top rear is held closed by a small bungy cord and S hook, which is unhooked to release any traped crabs, simalar to how a large blue crab trap at the bait shop works. Same sized bungy cord is also used to keep the bait pen door closed.
This is a very ruff prototype trap that is ugly to look at but will be perfected.
I have only used this trap one time and it rocked. This trap works very good, but being the perfectionist I am I already have another one in the works, having figured out how to make the tunnels true cones and equal in size and shape. The next one will not take as long.
The trap was lighter than I expected so I zip tied some rebar into it to weight it down.
This trap works perfect. Does not move in the waves and keeps all sized Calico's.
