How to make a trap for crayfish (rakolovka) with your own hands at home

Many people like to eat boiled crayfish meat, but I don’t know how to catch them. It’s not always convenient to catch a net, so it’s easiest to make a simple trap from which the crayfish will definitely not be able to get out.

The videos below will help you understand the process of creating a trap from improvised materials.



For work, we need:
- metal mesh with a 6mm cell;
- pliers;
- metal wire;
- scissors for metal;
- marker;
- nylon thread;
- roulette;
- nippers.


Having prepared all the materials, we get to work.
We measure from the grid 80 cm, with its width of 1 m. Make a mark with a marker and cut it with scissors for metal.

After that, we twist the cut piece into a tube. We connect the edges of the grid by inserting the edges of the cells into a friend and bending the metal ends.

Now we need to take a metal wire and cut a small piece from it, about 10 cm, and with it make a more reliable fastening of the edges of the grid. Cutting off the excess ends of the wire. The distance between the wire fasteners is 5-7 cm.

The protruding sharp edges of the mesh can either be bent or bit off.

Our stock is ready. Now you need to measure the diameter of the resulting circle and mark the same distance on a new piece of the grid. Draw a semicircle with a marked diameter. Cut it with scissors for metal. We mark the center of the straight part of the semicircle. From the mark we measure 5 cm in each direction and draw another semicircle, cut it out.

Now we need to connect the two edges of our semicircle. It turns out something like a cone. We fasten the edges with wire. We insert our cone into the blank of the trap body and fasten the edges with wire around the entire perimeter.

We perform exactly the same actions for the second side of our crayfish trap. Do not forget to bite or bend the protruding edges of the mesh.

The next step we need to make a window through which we will get the crayfish and put the bait.To do this, draw a small square around the middle with a marker. We cut out three of its sides with the help of nippers, then simply by bending the window.

As a bait, you can use spoiled fish or dried frogs, the main thing is that there is a smell of rotten meat.

To prevent the window from opening, fix it with a piece of wire.

We take a long piece of nylon thread and tie its ends along the edges of the trap. And another piece to the resulting pen, so that it is convenient to throw and get it.