Originally Posted By: adirondack pond
Here's a photo of one of my home made traps, I used 1/4 inch plastic fencing, just make the cylinder, then shape a funnel and an end and zip tie it together, I used a wood hoop from a craft store to keep the shape at the door end, also put a piece of metal stock on the bottom to weigh it down, I used aluminum.
The best bait for the trap I have found is beef liver.

I use the traps to check on the size of the trout, but also get mostly GSH and some pumpkinseeds.


I'd avoid plastic material because fish always rubs against it and it may get injuries. Cloth net is better because of this reason (I've seen some tench that have been in trap for ~1 week. I can't even imagine how could they look like after one week in plastic trap...). By the way, stiff plastic funnel is easy to get in and not hard to get out too, but loose funnel is easy to get in but hard to get out.