Bushcraft: Crayfish Trap & The Smoked Salmon

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