07-16-2016, 10:34 PM
[#0000FF]TubeN2 is my son. Most of what he says has merit. Most.
The cheap little nuggets of dry dog food really do work well. And I use wheat bread at home and save the leftover pieces in the freezer until I go minnowing. After thawing and crumbing the wheat bread works pretty well. Never had as much luck with plain white bread...except when I smoosh it up into little dough balls.
Garlic and onion can be good scents to apply to some lures. But I have never heard of anyone using them in minnow traps. But there are a lot of things I haven't heard so might be worth a try.
I think you are overthinking the color of the traps and the opening things. I know a lot of minnow catchers and they all have their own opinions about what colors work best, etc. But where you place the traps and which direction they are pointing is more important. It helps to align them in the direction the fish move as they go up and down the shoreline. And I doubt they reason out the perfectly round hole thing. If they want to go get the goodies inside they just want to find a way in. Oh yeah, it also seems to help if you have the traps settled fairly level on the bottom...not tilted a lot.
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The cheap little nuggets of dry dog food really do work well. And I use wheat bread at home and save the leftover pieces in the freezer until I go minnowing. After thawing and crumbing the wheat bread works pretty well. Never had as much luck with plain white bread...except when I smoosh it up into little dough balls.
Garlic and onion can be good scents to apply to some lures. But I have never heard of anyone using them in minnow traps. But there are a lot of things I haven't heard so might be worth a try.
I think you are overthinking the color of the traps and the opening things. I know a lot of minnow catchers and they all have their own opinions about what colors work best, etc. But where you place the traps and which direction they are pointing is more important. It helps to align them in the direction the fish move as they go up and down the shoreline. And I doubt they reason out the perfectly round hole thing. If they want to go get the goodies inside they just want to find a way in. Oh yeah, it also seems to help if you have the traps settled fairly level on the bottom...not tilted a lot.
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