Price Of Crickets

[crappie cowboy]

How much are yall paying for crickets?, I might have to order from someone on line and build a box to keep a few on hand.
Anyone got some pics of your cricket box?

crappie cowboy

[NIMROD]

I'd drop the crickets and use artifical baits. We catch just as many with less mess and it's way cheaper too!

[Bluegill Bill]

4 dollars a hundred. Thats what I'm paying for um.

[Daplumber]

$3.50 for 100 in Illinois.

[ShilohRed]

Gary theres a place in Savannah you can or could buy them by the Thousand.
Pete

[Oscar73]

$4 a hundred in Birmingham.

Although at this time of year I order them by the box of a thousand for 13.95 plus shipping from fluker farms.

You can do a search on line for cricket boxes..

Basically it is pretty simple. Mine is a plywood box, with metal foil tape up high so they can't get to the top. I have a hinged door on top with wire mesh screen. And I have a 40 watt light wired in to keep the box warm and to provide me light to catch crickets.



Oscar

[shooter]

I'd drop the crickets and use artifical baits. We catch just as many with less mess and it's way cheaper too!

NIMROD you got it, i tie my own,much cheaper,and catch just as much,although i have had to go to live bait a few times ,when they would not take nothing but .
my wife fishes live bait most of the time and i catch more then she does .
we fish with fly rods only,i got her to use atificials this weekend ,i thank is done with live bait now,maybe.

[ky-slabseeker]

How much are yall paying for crickets?, I might have to order from someone on line and build a box to keep a few on hand.
Anyone got some pics of your cricket box?

crappie cowboy

For a cricket box I bought one of those big rubbermaid storage boxes at wal mart with a locking lid and put me a few vent holes in the top with screen over them.It works really good.I have had as many as 2000 crickets in it before with no problems....

[Grayson1]

I've never done it but ordering them is alot cheaper. You can order for like $10(includes shipping) for 500. Or breed them that would be easy also.

[NIMROD]

NIMROD you got it, i tie my own,much cheaper,and catch just as much,although i have had to go to live bait a few times ,when they would not take nothing but .
my wife fishes live bait most of the time and i catch more then she does .
we fish with fly rods only,i got her to use atificials this weekend ,i thank is done with live bait now,maybe.

A cheap alterative is using part of a plastic trout worm. Walmart sells them in a small pack. They are bright colored plastic worms a little fatter than spagetti. We use pink ones on a small fly type leadhead under a cork. A package lasts several trips and the cost is under a dollar per package.:D