Bushcraft: Crayfish Trap & The Smoked Trout

I make a willow crayfish trap to catch the invasive Signal crayfish.
and smoke a Trout.

Signal Crayfish
The fishfarm downstream sometimes find a signal crayfish in their rists.
Signal crayfish is an invasive specie that outcompetes our seldom native crayfish.
It can spreads diseases which it can live with, but kills our native ones.

The Crayfish trap
In the beginning i started using some willow that is used for weaving, i didn’t store it correct and it became damp and dry, and damp and dry ect.
It broke when i used it. (i filmed the process when i hydrated it and started to use it, but deleted it when editing, becourse i use so little of it)
Instead i use green willow; White willow i think, anyway it is the best willow to use on the property. The problem with green willow is that it shrinks when drying and the weaving becomes loose, so i properly won’t be able to use the trap again. …but thats what i had.
At the time writing this, i have used another fishtrap for 5 days, and the one i weaved for 2 days. No crayfish. At the same time they have found 3 at the fishfarm. …Cody has ate them.

The Smoked Trout
I used way to much beech wood dust, there was only a little left in the bag so i used it all. The fish was bitter from to much dust, and i only ate what you see in the video. Cody ate the rest.

Cody
The black labrador is called Cody. He belongs to one of my best friends Tony, that has the fishfarm.
When Musen and me is at the site, Cody is with us. He loves Musen and me, and not least he knows i have food.
Cody is afraid of walking over the bridge.

Musen:
My dog eats raw chicken every night. Besides that she has dry food available all day.
Musen (the mouse) is a labradoodle
She is half brown labrador and half black/white toy poodle.
Her real name is Effie, but i only use that when her hearing is bad. ;)

Plet Mis
The cat lives at the fishfarm together with 15-20 other cats. But this one is not afraid of either us or the dogs. She is very attention seeking and as Cody, she knows i have food. She has just had 4 kittens, and they are becoming more and more tame as time goes. One day she was sleeping in the Hot tent, and she had one of them with her. I thought she only had one. And i called it Harry Mis, now that there is 4 they are all called Harry Mis at the time being, but that might change. …i don’t expect to have any mice living in the tent.

Color change
At some point where i have just finished the trap you can se the trees have changed color.
My tripod tilted and broke my lens (Canon LENS EF 50 mm. 1:1.4) It is the second i have broken in 1,5 year. I had to order a new lens, this time it became the cheeper and not as light strong: Canon LENS EF 50 mm. 1:1.4. It is cheeper but also more durable to being dropped. At the same time i had to get a new ND filter, as the old one didn’t fit the new lens.

Band Aid
I use a band aid at one point when weaving. At the same time i started to use a piece of wood to hit the willow with, instead of the backside of my leuku (knife)
…guess i dont need to tell more.

Clothes & Boots
www.pinewood.eu

Tent, Wood Stove & Kettle
www.pomoly.com

Cool Box
www.petromax-shop.de

Leuku
I made it with a blade from Lauri

Carving knife
Mora 106
https://amzn.to/3d4928Z

Camera
Canon eos RP
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Lenses
Canon LENS EF 50 mm. 1:1.4
https://amzn.to/2UqC7Uv
&
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens
https://llk.dk/r7h9nf