MINNOW TRAP

Bamavol

June 21, 2011 01:35

I bought a minnow trap and put it in a creek where I have seen minnows. I baited with bread and dog food. I left it in for a few days and checked it every day. No minnows. What is the problem?

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  MMOMEQ-55

  June 21, 2011 02:22

  I have always in the past made certain the opening was pointing up stream so the water flowed thru the opening. Also is the hole large enough for the minnows you have seen to go thru? Other than that you should be getting minnows in your trap.
  
  I also used to have good luck in the bends of the creek in the deep part of the water.
  
  Good luck.

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  wpage

  June 22, 2011 02:38

  Try just bread.

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  Bamavol

  June 22, 2011 16:45

  The hole may be too small. ( Never thought I would say that.)

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  wpage

  June 25, 2011 15:49

  Thats what she said!

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  tapwater

  June 28, 2011 08:53

  ...I always had good luck with dog food, as it won't dissolve as fast as bread. Usually had plenty of crawdads in the trap too.

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  asphalt cowboy

  July 25, 2011 17:53

  Mush up a bunch of worms with dry oatmeal and put a tennis ball size glob in the toe of a nylon stocking. Then use a pen knife to poke a bunch of holes in the stocking. Hang that in the middle of the trap and wedge the trap between a couple of good size rocks in a deep riffle keeping the open ends up/down stream.

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  MrGunz22

  July 25, 2011 18:20

  I do the opposite. I use a fish head as bait and put it in a slow moving pool in a creek or any where in a lake. Works for me. Try to switch up your bait

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