What is the best way to catch minnows?
#1
What is the best way to catch minnows?
Where I live there is No place to buy minnows.
And trying to catch them with a dip net is a lot harder than it looks.
What do you do to catch minnows?
Thank You
jrbsr
And trying to catch them with a dip net is a lot harder than it looks.
What do you do to catch minnows?
Thank You
jrbsr
#3
Spike
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Middleburg
Posts: 36
Bait, chum, them in. Get a cheap box of dry cat food, poor some in a plastic container add water and mash into a thick paste. Add a little sand for weight, mix and form into balls a little smaller than a tennis ball. When you see some minnows throw in one of your chum balls and they will all come start eating, a few minutes later get them all in one cast net throw. Works great for shrimp too.
#9
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Indiana county, Pa
Posts: 679
I used to use a minnow seine that was about 4' square. attached it to a couple old broom handles and waded the creeks using the poles to poke the sides of the creek to chase the minnows out to the middle into the seine. had a buddy carry a minnow bucket put them in. in Pa. you have to have a fishing license to seine for minnows.
#10
I used to use the same gear to get soft shell crawfish for bass bait in some small farm ponds. No idea how the crawfish get there but I could usually seine enough for several fishing outings in a half hour. Now I use mostly artificial baits instead of live bait and do quite well.