Piggy Perch Traps

Yes, they work very well along bulkheads. Morning and evening seem to be the best. Do not buy the academy ones--no good. Goto Marburgers( if its still called that). I bait them with spanish sardines and have no problems filling up a trap.

Can have a blast on a light rod with perch hook and cut squid...we caught a bundle of them before our outing with James Howell and the AJ's loved them. Thank God we had them along.

dbar6488 said:

AJ's loved them

Click to expand...

So do snapper, ling and dorado!!!

Ditto on the traps. We throw em out hte day before by the boat and get a good dozen by departure. Those AJ's slam em hard.

Live Bait = Good Fish

I know that good livies = fish offshore and I go about getting them like everyone else (castnet, rod n reel around the docks weedlines and rigs). I do allot of weekend trips to Matagorda, Freeport and soon to be Port A where I stay on the water. Just wondering if I can save myself some work by setting a trap out overnight baited with squid, shrimp, crushed crab, etc. I've never used them and don't want to buy one if I'm going to leave it out for a day and have two piggies in it.

Thanks,

If you leave it out for a day and your "bait" is all gone and only a few piggies in the trap, they have left the trap. With that kind of bait you should be able to fill a trap with 2 dozen piggies in an hour or two. Also, piggies hide at night so best catching is during the morning and evening.

i use to go on the day before a trip use a dink hook bits of squid r shrimp catch em and find you a place to keep em(without gettin ripped off) in a couple 5 gal buckets with holes in em and pick em up next day put em in a live well for transport to the boat! i use to take them to the partyboat and give the deckhands 10-20 bucks to get a live well started! the real advantage to this is the size of the baits youll catch! good luck!

I have some Marathon rigs

very small shrimp, 5 on a line and they are working great. Croaker and piggys seem to love them. I got the rigs at walmart (about $1.50) and so far hold up well but I have only used the a few times. I'm planning to take my daughter down to the water in the afternoon the day before I set out to catch the bigger fish. She so far has been able to keep me very busy just removing them as fast as she catches them. I would think a dozen or two in less than a half hour.

Pinfish Trap

I use one all the time. I fish out of Matagorda and usually set mine out the day before and it is usually full by the next morning. I bait mine with some dead shrimp and it works well. Place it by some pilings or docks and you should have not problem catching some. I set mine out next to my boat lift in the Matagorda Harbour.