Meat can also be used as bait. It helps, whether using fish or meat, if the bait is decidedly high or rotten. Both crabs and crayfish have a decided preference for rotten meat. The net is lowered into the sea and left undisturbed for about two hours. It should be pulled up swiftly. Any crabs or crayfish which have been feeding on the bait will be caught. For crayfish set the net on a rocky, weedy bottom. For crabs it should be set on a sandy bottom, preferably not far from a reef. A drum net is simply a wire cage with DRUM NET FISH TRAP an inverted cone-shaped entrance at either end. These cone 'doors' lead inwards and the fish swimming in through them are held securely inside the trap. A drum net can be set in mid-stream or dropped down into a deep river pool or laid anywhere where fish regularly feed -the edge of a seashore rocky ledge is an ideal place. Almost any bait will do for this sort of trap; crushed shellfish, varieties of inedible fish or meat.
--3 The drumfih trap usually gives good catches.
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