Important tips for eel cage trapping method

The eel cage should be made of bamboo gabions with barbs that are 30-40 centimeters high and 15-16 centimeters in diameter. The two ends of the cage are long and thin, the bottom of the cage is closed, the upper mouth is open, and the caliber of the cage is suitable for stretching a human fist.

In the lower end of the cage 7-8 cm, weave 5-8 thin bamboo pieces, naturally formed inverted whiskers of the small mouth, diameter of 5 cm or so, so that eels can be free from the outside world drilled into the cage, but can not exit the cage.

The production of eel bait tube choose a section of 25-30 centimeters long, 6-8 centimeters in diameter of the bamboo tube (bamboo tube at the bottom of the nodes do not open, so as not to drop the bait), in the height of 5 centimeters at the perimeter of the opening of a few 6-centimeter slits, these slits are called bait window.

Expanded information:

Because eels like to eat fresh live bait, take eel cage Zhang catching eels, first of all, we must prepare enough fresh shrimp, small color, live earthworms, fresh chicken liver or pig liver, and then with the grass ash mixing to be used.

First take a small amount of bait into the bait tube, then the tube of meat from the bait window gradually released, luring eels slowly into the cage. The bait is loaded into the bottom of the bait tube and then inserted into the cage, while the mouth of the cage is tightly plugged with a wooden plug or a ball of straw.

In the evening of 6-7 pm in May-October, you can gently put the cage under the water at the edge of the pool, or put it into the side of the ridge of the paddy field, and then press down hard into the mud for 3 to 5 centimeters. Each square meter of water surface put 4-5 cages, to be 1-2 hours later, began to take the cage to collect eels.