06-19-2018, 12:31 PM
"So if I set a regular minnow trap and end up with white bass I need to release them, right?"
[#0000FF]Right. Any species not legal to take other than by "angling" must be released. But, in truth, I have never caught any white bass in a minnow trap. I am sure some of the smaller ones would wander in but as they get bigger they won't fit through the standard 1" openings on most traps. But they grow fast and aren't small enough to trap very long. Still best to go after them with small jigs or flies.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Electric Lake used to be full of redside shiners and they were easy to catch in minnow traps or by cast nets. With the changes in the fish plantings I am not sure of the current populations of shiners. I am attaching a couple of pics of redsides from E-Lake.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Right. Any species not legal to take other than by "angling" must be released. But, in truth, I have never caught any white bass in a minnow trap. I am sure some of the smaller ones would wander in but as they get bigger they won't fit through the standard 1" openings on most traps. But they grow fast and aren't small enough to trap very long. Still best to go after them with small jigs or flies.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Electric Lake used to be full of redside shiners and they were easy to catch in minnow traps or by cast nets. With the changes in the fish plantings I am not sure of the current populations of shiners. I am attaching a couple of pics of redsides from E-Lake.[/#0000FF]
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