TenMile
Well-Known Member
So a buddy and I have been doing fairly well prawning this year. In total we have 6 traps. They are all the round stainless type with black poly-mesh netting. We fish 2 per line. Use the round Scotty bait jars with pellets and herring oil.
1 of the traps outfishes all of the other traps like 10:1 and we can't quite figure out why. The trap in question was one my wife gave me for a birthday a few years ago and is a round folding trap made by Flex Fold. Just yesterday for example in the 5 other traps we got about 30 prawns total. The Flex Fold trap -- which was tethered 20ft from another trap had 200+ prawns in it while it's mate had about 20. It's crazy -- we call it the "money trap".
The only difference we can spot is that the Flex Fold seems to have deeper entry ways. We've been keeping up with mesh repairs on all the traps. Any thoughts from the expert prawners? Any way to improve the rest of the fleet?
1 of the traps outfishes all of the other traps like 10:1 and we can't quite figure out why. The trap in question was one my wife gave me for a birthday a few years ago and is a round folding trap made by Flex Fold. Just yesterday for example in the 5 other traps we got about 30 prawns total. The Flex Fold trap -- which was tethered 20ft from another trap had 200+ prawns in it while it's mate had about 20. It's crazy -- we call it the "money trap".
The only difference we can spot is that the Flex Fold seems to have deeper entry ways. We've been keeping up with mesh repairs on all the traps. Any thoughts from the expert prawners? Any way to improve the rest of the fleet?