Make a Plastic Bottle Fishing Trap
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Fishing Hunting & Trapping
In a survival situation every bit of food you can capture can mean the difference between living and dieing. A Pop Bottle Trap is a great way to catch small fish for food and or bait.
Plastic Bottle Fishing Trap
How to make the Fish Trap
- With a Sharp Knife, cut off the top of the pop bottle. As shown above.
- Shove the head of the bottle into the body of the bottle.
- You can put a couple small scraps of bait or small insects in the bottle to attract small fish.
- Place the bottle into the shallow water. (you can hold it in place with some small river rocks or mud.
- Once the fish swim in they won’t be able to swim back out.
Interesting idea. It might be worth experimenting with bottles that have somewhat larger mouths, like juice bottles. Of course, they need to be shaped in such a way that the cut off top will fit neatly into the rest of the bottle, as with the pop bottle.
John
I read the story about fish trap with pop bottle that was so easy it’s brilliant trap you can find or bring plastic bottle with you thanks I will try that this year thanks again,Jeff, from michigan***
Kool i will try it at a nearby creek and release the fish after just to see if it works
Sounds a good idea but i to think the hole is to small,hav u caught any in this trap
Cheers Eddie
Hey Eddie,
I used these kinds of traps to catch minnows when I was a kid. They are great for catching small fish and minnows
I used these kinds of traps to catch fresh water prawns (?) I use it for live bait
I will have to show this to my son… he loves trying this kind of thing. My kids know more about survival techniques than I do most of the time!
If one wishes to catch larger fish just cut the “spout” part of the bottle off and give yourself a larger hole. make the cut in a zig-zag pattern for a more effective trap.
how do ya keep the water out of do bottle and if ya dont my bad, but i think it would be better to attch thorns so once they swim in they cant swim out, and cut a v shaped notch.
Great idea! I have been designing and building traps for years with common articles at hand, but this never occurred to me. It strikes me as being a good way to catch bait for larger traps and larger prey, or for fishing with a hook and line.
Thanks for the cool tip! I passed it along. ^MM
Thanks Mike
Been making these traps for nearly 30 years always work.I would suggest poking holes in the bottle to help it sink.Connect the cone to the bottom half with fishing swivels to make it easier to remove the catch and bait.With a piece of bacon works good on crawdads to. HAPPY TRAPPING!!!
This makes a great fly catcher as well. We used them in Afghanistan where flys are a big problen on our FOB. Pour a little soda, juice or sugar water in the bottom and it will catch tons of flys.
well…guess what i have mad a lot of minnow traps and i have cought a lot of minnows but i don’t use them for bait,i just put them in my fish tanks and watch them grow then i will let them go if they get too big for my tanks.I have at least 5 or more of these minnow traps and they really do work,I’ve use dog food and that really works too even bacon does too,but so does dog food and other things like that. I cought a lot of them by use all kinds of bait.well better let you all go now.
happy trapping to you all.
oh….one more thing,HAPPY THANKS GIVING TO ALL TOO.
Dear friend,
How would you be able to keep the fish in the trap with out sawing it together? and how would you be able to get the fish out of the trap with out having to have to cut the string with some kind of sharp thing? and be for you put the trap in the water how would you be able to keep it there with out something taking off with it? and you really just can’t just stand there and watch the minnows go in to your trap, they can see you you know? and they won’t be going in it while you are stand there watching them and waiting for them to go in, and how long do you think it will take be for you find out that you don’t have any minnow in there because the top isn’t fastened on to the bottle? did you ever think of how you will be able to keep the minnows in your neat trap? hope that it does work.
hope it does.
well better let you go now.
a good friend\
I have been making these since i was a kid….I have found the clear bottles work much better than the colored bottles… Its a simple thing thats great for catching bait..and as always be responsible and dont leave your traps behind..