A long time back when I fished Estero Bay we always used pinfish for bait. It was easy to idle up to a beach or flat and castnet a bunch. After tearing up my net and sliming the boat a few times I realized it did not work so easily up here so I turned to shrimp and sometimes artificial lures. Once in a while I try to snag some pins with a string of those little hooks but they always end up in a discouraging tangled mess. So this spring I am thinking of dropping a small trap on the flats when I first hit the water, run back to work the bars for reds, and then retrieve it in a couple of hours and go for the trout or spanish or whatever.
Questions: What is the best trap and where to get it? I push around in a 13' whaler so there is not a lot of extra space. Something collapsible would be nice. And cheap. Do other folks do this?
pinfish traps?
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After looking around including a stop at RMC I finally bought a pinfish trap. The hang-up was finding a something compact but finally this week I came across a nice little model in a small bait shop down south. Cheap too at less than $6. Now I need to rig a way to hang a fish head or whatever else the pinners will find delicious, find an old rope in the garage and an empty milk jug. Hoping this works!
If you want to keep it, ya best put a weight in the bottom of it "to hold it in place" then take a GPS reading of it and have something long enuf to reach down and grab it 
if you mark it with a jug of any kind, it will last less than a week before some low-life steals it 
if you mark it with a jug of any kind, it will last less than a week before some low-life steals it “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
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10-4 Wevans.
I'm planning on putting the trap out when I first launch in the morning using something I froze from a previous trip for bait, retrieving whatever harvest in a couple of hours, and taking it home at night. GPS for sure. Excellent point about the weight. I've never tried to use a trap so this is all new to me.
I'm planning on putting the trap out when I first launch in the morning using something I froze from a previous trip for bait, retrieving whatever harvest in a couple of hours, and taking it home at night. GPS for sure. Excellent point about the weight. I've never tried to use a trap so this is all new to me.
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