Easy DIY Survival Traps From A Bottle How to Make Fish Traps From Trash
These simple survival traps utilize commonly found trash that washes up on all creeks, rivers, oceans, and any other water soure. These survival traps and fish traps are fantastic because they not only can work to collect small insects, or fish, but they can be made from almost any plastic bottle, in any size and take just a few minutes to make, and you need just three basic things to make them!
Items Needed
- Plastic Bottle: These small survival fish traps works with a single bottle, but it works better with two (much easier to empty) they don't need to be a specific size, but the larger the bottle opening the larger the animals can fit into it.
- Cordage: This will be used to tie the cut bottle tops to the body of the bottle, and if your making this a fishing trap, to tie to your bottle from the bank. HERE is a link to an awesome tool that can make cordage from the wasted portions of your two liter bottle.
- Cutting Tool : To make these small survival traps you'll have to cut a plastic bottle, and pierce it with several small holes.
How to Make Your Plastic Bottle Survival Fishing Traps
Cut your bottle at the top, right as the curve turns straight. Remove the cap.
Cut the second bottle along the bottom edge, where the bottle's curve becomes straight.
Push the top of the first bottle, into the bottom of the second bottle tightly, so there is no space for anything to get out.
You can use a small blade, but something round works best to pierce holes along the outside (for air for insects, or for water to flood in or out for fish) you can also do this by heating a round metal object to pierce the bottle along the lines shown above. Tie the two portions together with cordage wire, or zip ties works best but anything will do for a short time.
For collecting insects you'll want to bait your bottle with something to draw them. You can catch any manner of land based insects, reptiles, or small animals in this trap so beware of poisonous reptiles, and insects. Be sure to make either a ramp, or bury the bottle so that your target prey can easily get inside. To empty the bottle simply remove the cap.
To turn it into a fish trap, add Bait and pebbles/rocks to the bottle for weight, and tie cordage to the bottle to be able to pull it back up. To empty the bottle simply unscrew the cap.
