Tube of Crickets

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Comment by Lord of the Fly , Rods on February 7, 2012 at 5:25pm

If I get a cricket back after a catch and it all mush ,I add a fresh cricket to the hook, It's like " lag nappi" the bream love it, and they get caught too.  LOFR

 

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on February 7, 2012 at 5:20pm

PS... Crickets ma ke noise all the. They are always chattering among themselves, but in a low mutter. Sometimes I sit and listen to them talking amongst themselves... And even talk back on occasion.
The usual loud chirping we associate with crickets seems to be something they do mostly at night.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on February 7, 2012 at 5:12pm

I think of crickets as "expendable," I guess. They aren't costly and Im usually ready to go home before I've run out. I someones chum the water with them, tossing them freely to stimulate the fish... Which, I might add doesn't do all that much. The fish around here are wary, I guess (or I need to find some dumber fish!)

Comment by Leo Nguyen on February 7, 2012 at 3:37pm

You're lucky Jeffrey. Mine, it takes 2 to 3 crickets to get one fish around here. They are smart little buggers in these water. However, when I caught one, I still gave the bugger the cricket as a reward for putting up with me. Plenty of crickets to go around.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on February 7, 2012 at 3:21pm

I won't put more than two tubes in one cage but normally I spread them out to keep one tube per cage....helps to keep them alive.....Not expensive...Occasionally you can catch more than one fish per bait but its less than 20% of the time.....Most of the time the cricket that may remain on the hook is mush and water logged making it easy for the fish to suck it off the hook........With so many crickets available, I normally add a new bait each time..........They're normally silent in the boat during the day fishing....they sing right away in the darkness..... Still a fun way to catch gills!

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on February 7, 2012 at 6:26am

HEY JEFFREY, that is neat as heck . I 've never seen one before . How many of those cylinders do you put in a cage? Looks expensive . Can you catch more than one gill on a cricket?

  Still waiting to hear Jeffery, DO THEY CHIRP OR MAKE OTHER NOISES IN THE BOAT LIKE THEY DO IN MY GARAGE?
   TOOTY

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on February 7, 2012 at 4:04am

In these parts they use a paper towel tube for collection and this funnel thing as a dispenser. I guess it is the nature of crickets to go into a paper towel tube to shelter. The little buggers crowd in tightly and the bait shop just picks up a tube - full of the little saw-backs - and dumps them into this funnel contraption.

My shop has made theirs, DIY fashion, by taping together a cut-off soda pop bottle top and a plastic tube. The dispenser doubles as a measuring unit, of course, and when filled it is unceremoniously dumped into your bait cage. How many crickets will it hold? I dunno - they sell a tube full for $2.00.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on February 7, 2012 at 12:14am

Hm..interesting. i use those tube as torpedoes by discharging their contents into the water to stir the local up.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on February 6, 2012 at 9:47pm

This is what most bait shops use to sell crickets Tooty......