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

Now as soon as I can get the Wife off the riding mower to get a picture on here, there might be a run on Pet Smart with the Red Ears going on the beds next. what I found was in the section where they keep food for Reptiles. What caught my attention was A Gel type Cricket food that was both food and water in one. Keeping Crickets alive that climbed the wire are not inclined to find anything placed in with them, So they die pretty Quick ----- Here comes the Wife, What you looking at??? This stuff is for snakes. On a shelf a little higher was two Cricket Boxes designed to keep them alive, Made of clear Plastic on the Bottom, The Top vented with Four Black tubes that is inserted at angles to make it easy for the Crickets to climb up in the tube. When the Tube is removed a small Flap covers the opening to keep the Crickets inside. It comes with Four little trays for Food and water. I bought the big one that will keep 150 crickets for about $25 and food another $4. ---- Come time to fish with them you take out one at a time from the tube ---- No more Crickets living in the boat forever ----Crickets just made simple.:cheers2

Does it keep em from barking too?:dono

Yes but you have to buy the bark-no-more. I haven't seen the box discribed but if I don't foget about it I will be getting one.

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Please ignore all the "stuff" on the table. This is the Cricket Palace and Food.

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Originally Posted by Fish on Line

Now as soon as I can get the Wife off the riding mower to get a picture on here, there might be a run on Pet Smart with the Red Ears going on the beds next. what I found was in the section where they keep food for Reptiles. What caught my attention was A Gel type Cricket food that was both food and water in one. Keeping Crickets alive that climbed the wire are not inclined to find anything placed in with them, So they die pretty Quick ----- Here comes the Wife, What you looking at??? This stuff is for snakes. On a shelf a little higher was two Cricket Boxes designed to keep them alive, Made of clear Plastic on the Bottom, The Top vented with Four Black tubes that is inserted at angles to make it easy for the Crickets to climb up in the tube. When the Tube is removed a small Flap covers the opening to keep the Crickets inside. It comes with Four little trays for Food and water. I bought the big one that will keep 150 crickets for about $25 and food another $4. ---- Come time to fish with them you take out one at a time from the tube ---- No more Crickets living in the boat forever ----Crickets just made simple.:cheers2

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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.

Are redears.......ah chinquapine biting?? Which lake

That's hilarious, laughed out loud. You know what I mean. I have one too:

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Got this as well when my son was in the military. One of his trips was to Thailand and he brought me back a huge gecko he caught in the jungle. Wasn't a problem with customs because he was on a military aircraft. Fed that lizard many years out of that box.

Thing is, with the tube, they will pile out of there like they are in a parade - or act like there is some tragic in India. With my experience, some will still die of old age after escaping in the boat :). Still tote the cage and live with it. Huge fun catching those bream summertime! Thanks for posting.

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.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...cricketbox.jpg

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 am picturing you going into the bait shop and asking them for crickets with that box...rotfl

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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.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...cricketbox.jpg

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'

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

When I was in Florida a couple of week ago fishing for bream and Oscars we used a ton of cricket and let loose a few, especially when I knocked my cricket cage over.....twice.
Florida had it's own solution for loose boat crickets.


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These birds have become accustomed to fishermen and the air boat tours feed them also, when we got back to the ramp, they would hop down in the boat while I was waiting for my buddy to get the truck and back the trailer down, and proceed to track down and devour any loose crickets, including the ones we had stepped on and mashed into the carpet.

Got a video of them at the dock, but I can't get it to load.
In case you missed the post on our trip, here is the link. Pretty interesting trip.

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/showt...-done-ruint-me

I call them Chinquapin too, I just cant remember how to spell it .... However they spawn after the Crappie, and before Bluegills --- that means they should be bedding now. The Bluegills are supose to go on the beds on the next full Moon, about two weeks.

I enjoyed the post and link Sea Ray, Thanks

Wow that looks like some fun SeaRay!

Great post SeaRay.....enjoyed the story.....and pics......

Hey SR,

City park in New Orleans is full of Mayan Cichlid. You can catch by the 5lbs bucket using just a small hair jig or fly. They folks want you to take out all you can and don't throw any back.

Man Sea Ray, that looks like a blast!

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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.

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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!