if you have to use chicken, just the cheapest you can. chicken necks you usually can find in the grocery store. Its better to just buy them they day before and let them sit in the sun to get nice and stinky before you stuff them in the trap.
crabs love the stinky stuff. I even caught crabs one time on a opossum carcass, I guess I didnt have the traps secured enough over winter?
my FAVORITE bait to use is that whenever I'm out fishing, if I catch fish that are junk fish or small without a minimum size limit...I keep it all and then let it sit out in the sun for a day and chop it all up and form it into a tube with papertowels around it and then freeze it in a ziplock. just toss the frozen papertoweled stinky bait in the trap and wait.
also, try going into a little deeper water or a creek opening.
oh yeah, whats up with the hermit crabs and reds?? you mean red snapper?
do you crack the hermit crab out of the shell and hook it I assume??
what about snails??
