These are long skinny minnows. I keep them for a few hours in an oxygen rich pressurized bag and they are perfectly healthy when i transfer them to the holding bucket. I've never had them die on me before, but then again, I dont think i have ever fished them in water this hot.

I'm fairly certain that they are bass. I can see the large mouth when they come up, and I can see the black stripe down the side onquite a fewof them. I could be mistaken though, I dont profess to be an expert on the matter so who knows .

Ive fished this lake hard with the horny toad and got nothing other than that initial bowfin. Ive fished it with the Horny Toad, the Stanley's Ribbit and the Scumfrog Bigfoot and have gotten zero bites.Maybe I am incorrectabout thelake holding bass, I know earlier this year that was a large quantity of fish that showed up dead on the banks (Hundreds)and so maybe the fish population has dwindled. However, one of thedead fish that hadnt been completely consumed was a 2-3 lb large mouth floatingalong the bank, so I know thatthere shouldbe some more bass in there.

I picked up a Storm Rattlin Chug Bug in the Gizzard Shad color configuration on lunch today and will give it a try soon enough. I looked for the Heedon that youhad pictured in the other post, but I couldnt remember what it looked like and didnt see any others that resembled what I thought it looked like.

Jeez, my wife isgonna kill me whenI tell her I picked up another lure, lol.