find a good spot for them and wear either shorts and tennis shoes or waders and get you a minnow seine we use " dads" here all the time and can usually get enough for a weekend fishin trip in about an hr. remember you don' t need rocky bottom for dads a mucky bottom usually holds many more look for the holes at the waters edge and as you walk up on the ditch you should see them scattering as you approach once you find a spot like that you can come back yr after yr and get plenty for fishin