There was a bream flopping around in my pond dieing so I grabbed him and cut him into 4 strips about 4 inches long because it was big ole bluegill and threw them in a crawfish trap and put it in a pond connected to swamp near our house.

Do you guys think I'll catch any? I've never put out a crawfish trap because I've always went out in wades after storms and caught them with nets.

I'm gonna go out there sometime after I fish tommorow and get the trap and see the results

Careful you might catch Sam.

Yelp

I don't get it

I don't get it

Sam's avatar is a crawfish.

Best trap I've found is a gallon milk jug. Cut the top off, pop a bunch of drainage holes in it, bury it up to the top in the mud and bait it. Make sure to cover the top when you pull the trap or they can swim out. They crawl in to eat the bait and either can't swim out or just don't care to because it feels like a safe place to be. The smooth sides of the milk jug are impossible for them to climb too. 

So what did you get?  Any of my cousins???

Nope, after I laid it out I checked it 4 hours later and had nothing. Let it sit over night and checked it again before I rode out to the lake and it was still empty. The bait hadn't been touched

Make sure and make some cocktail sauce traps as well ya never know.

at smith mountain lake, i just toss an empty non baited minnow trap out in the shallow rocky water near the bank, and when i come back in a month or so there are crawdads in there. wonder what i would get if i threw a few strips of bacon in the trap...