leach trapping

[nitefisher]

can anyone tell me how to make a good but cheap leach trap? have a few good places to trap but no traps. any help would be thankful.

[Guppy]

We used to use the old tin coffee cans. Use a screw driver to punch a bunch of holes in it, not too big. Make a hole on the side at the top and tie a string to it. Then tie the string to some type of float. We put a rock in the bottom for weight and then some type of bait. The guy I did this with trapped beaver and he saved some beaver meat and put a chunck in each can. Put the plastic cover on the can and sink it. We checked it after a couple of days. The leeches could get in, but because of the sharp edges, couldn't get back out.

[nitefisher]

thanks for the reply, do you think that liver would be a good bait? or does it have to be meet?.

[Bobb-o]

the frabill minnow traps work well, or what i do is take a piece of pvc pipe, put a cap on one end and fashion a funnel out of screen from s screen window on the other end. I would put in cut up suckers and could get a pound or two a day out of the traps. but i was trapping leeches in beaver ponds, not in lakes or rivers. Chicken liver works well as bait, but if you are trapping in a small pond be careful because you could overbait and poison the pond.

[nitefisher]

this is a large gravel pit very deep, but full of leaches. how big should the hole be in the screen funnel about the size of a pencil?.

[protrapper]

I use the coffe can trap myself. Fast and easy. We get some big leeches up here. I use sucker heads for bait. Like let some guts hand from the head too.

[Bobb-o]

maybe a little larger than a pencil, probably aboot the size of a crayola marker.

[poutpro]

Fold some tin to form a W and put meat in the creases of it.

[nitefisher]

thanks everyone you all have been of great help to me and it really means alot to have freinds like all of you. i hope this site never ends. thanks all

[protrapper]

No problem.