Minnow Trap

Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 06:26

I haven't been on for a long time! You must all be wondering about me. 

Kyle got me a minnow trap for Christmas. It is designed so that minnows can swim in but not get out. It looks just like a wire trash can with two closed ends. On each end there is an indent with a hole in it. it's held together with a pin-like thing. You bait the trap with bread, dough, or meat. I used balls of bread mixed with butter so it would be waterproof.

Me, my brother and my sister went down to a creek near our house. (when down there, we saw an animal that we didn't know the name of. I found that the name of it was the marsh rice rat). Anyway, It was a particulary warm day (63 degrees!) for the dead of January, and we saw some minnows. We thought it would be a good day to set the trap. So we baited it with the bait I mentioned, and checked it from time to time. No minnows.

There was a tornado warning that day, so we had to come in. Today I checked it. I saw flashes in it. Now, apparently minnows swim into the hole in either side, but are not smart enough to know to swim out. I lifted up the trap and was rewarded with 40 MINNOWS! We put them in a black plastic sled with water, stones, mud grass and food. We had set the trap again and caught another 10 or 15.

There is one problem, though. what to do with them all. I know you can use them for bait for large fish, but we really don't have a fishing trip planned, and it's supposed to be 0 degrees next week. I tried feeding them to the cat, but she didn't want them. Any ideas, please leave them in a comment. Thanks!  

Ummmmmmm...................................

Posted by gaelin on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 10:31 - Link

Ahhh...if they were bass I would say to eat...but...well, I heard people say that dogs eat them, or when you hunt, that you can use that for bait (well, really, the only animal that would eat the fish our racoons, and you said that you never went coon hunting! or, if they were mine I would dissect them.LOL!) minnows are good to eat ( atleast some spiecies are) but one would not fill a bird. if you caught enough maybe...........
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Hi!

Posted by Kate on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 11:16 - Link

Hi Kenny!
~Kate

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Posted by EmilyD on Monday, February 4, 2008 at 05:36 - Link

my dad has a minnow trap when we go to the shore.