Thread: Chasing Crickets in the cage problem solved !!!!!!

Originally Posted by PawPaw "gene"

I heard many comments about chasing crickets around the boat and a lot of y'all have posted solutions. I've only fished crickets a few times in my live as I mostly fish with artificial, either store bought or hand tied. When I did use crickets years back I never lost a cricket. The cricket box I had was much like the ones you see today that look like this.



I've search the web for quite a while for one and couldn't find one. The only difference from the one pictured is that the tube was about 3 inches long. It also had a slit in it for the last inch or two (I'm trying describe it from memory). There was a removable cap on the end. In use, the crickets would crawl into the tube all the way to the cap and with the cap still in place you slid the hook in the slit of the tube and hooked the cricket, either head to tail or tail to head, while he was still in the tube. Once hooked, you'd remove the cap slide the cricket out of the tube and quickly cap the tube again before the next cricket in the tube crawled to the end. It was a no muss no fuss method, and you didn't have to touch the crickets with your hands. I'm sure someone else remembers those. It would be easy enough to add a extension to the above pictured box by gluing a tube with a slit on one side to the existing short tube and make your own. Good luck.
"gene'

I use this one too, works great, but crickets still live in my boat!

Originally Posted by cajun

We call redears - chinquapin. Get a wire cricket cage($2). To get a cricket, slam the cage on the bottom of the boat. Reach in to get a cricket. Shake your hand before removing it to thwart freeloaders. If that's too much noise, slam the cage on your your thigh, but don't miss or you may have more noise. When you get home, feed your crickets a slice of potato a day as it provides both food and water.

Exactly ^^^ LOL

To help minimize excess movement, I glued carpet or such to bottom of cage to help with that banging, so I can tap ( or slam ) quietly in place, grab and go :-))) The slam has a theraputic (or daze!) effect on them!