cockroach's

Cane pole you sure do have an affection for contraptions. Looking at the age of that colinder it just might make that thing of yours the very first Roach Motel. Dont guess Raid paid you any royalties for the idea Ha.

I cant belive this thread as I used to know of an old man in Hot Springs that used them for bait and he caught stringers of crappie every day. When I tell people that they look at me like I am crazy. He used the big long black wood cockroach I see everywhere in the summer. I was a little guy and dont remember how he caught them or kept them to use, but still remember him comming in our store with a cooler of fish every day.They seem to like wood piles and love dog food. Just wish I could get over the heebie jeebi thing or I would give em a try.

If you are looking to start a breeding colony of roaches, Roachman is the guy to talk to http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/Roaches/Roachman.html. This guy has numerous species available if you are looking to start a colony. I have been breeding a Blaberus spp. that I obtained from a university colony for years now, but I feed them to my lizards, never tried them on a hook. I would think one of the softer, smaller roach species would probably work better for bait. Roaches are pretty easy to breed and don't require much maintenance compared to crickets. You just have to be careful since most species can crawl on glass and lots of them can fly and get out of the container :)

Also, if you want to try to catch them, a good way is to use a pitfall trap. There are many ways to make a pitfall trap, but all of them involve burying a cup of some sort and waiting for insect to fall in and become trapped. You can google pitfall trap and find a bunch of different ways to do this. My favorite is to take a 2-liter soda bottle, cut the top off a short ways after if curves, then invert the top into the bottom such that the cut ends are aligned. Dig a hole then bury the trap so that the edge of the trap is even with ground. You can put bait in it before you set out the trap to increase your chances of catching roaches. I always heard that stale beer makes a good roach attractant but have never tried it. If you try using a pitfall, chances are you will come up with much more than just roaches, but hey, thats just more bugs to try out when you go fishing. Good luck.

I Love fishing................. BUT you have to draw the line somewhere! I ain't using no roaches and I ain't using no leaches. Kinda iffy on the maggots. And I reserve the right to keep you outta my boat if you are carrying any of the above!

Everything else is fair bait:p

john

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Originally Posted by bowdenja

I Love fishing................. BUT you have to draw the line somewhere! I ain't using no roaches and I ain't using no leaches. Kinda iffy on the maggots. And I reserve the right to keep you outta my boat if you are carrying any of the above!

Everything else is fair bait:p

john

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thats ok I have my own boat no need to fish in yours.

Way back when we couldn't afford to go to bait stores we caught our on bait. Since we used wood stoves we always had stacks of wood. We would catch a bunch of the wood roaches in the wood stack. We caught a ton of fish on the wood roaches.

Have no clue who sales them, but they do make great bait.

Bowdenja I agree with ya buddy, I aint got no room for them either, last thing I need is a colony of roaches in my boat lol :D

Thanks Cmac! Them BIG roaches give me the heebeegeebees! Dang thangs can fly too, that ain't natural!

I just tried some of GRUBCO's big mealworms............ Dude! Those thing swork great. Good company to deal with too!

Y'all keep yur roaches, heck you got my permission to come down here and take every last one of 'em back with ya!:D

john

Y'al be safe this here Holiday Weekend!:D

Maybe you could find a supplier that makes artificial roaches or create your own mold and make you some.

http://www.wormman.com/cat_roaches.cfm