minnow trapping, a golden dilemma
#1 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 19 October 2009 - 01:31 AM
Instead of a stream I decided to trap a small marshy pond in my town. I heard it had sunfish and bullhead, and when i was a kid I made a stupid mistake of putting crappie in it (not sure if they survived or not). Last time I fished it small fish kept stealing my bait but i didn't think i'd have much luck with a minnow trap.
Boy was I wrong! I caught 44 golden shiners in 8 hours. Now I have a dilemma. What do I do with an aerated bucket holding 44 golden shiners?
#3 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 31 October 2009 - 09:11 AM
Go fishing???
Brian
I ended up giving them to a bait shop. that pond however ended up being the best minnow trapping place i found and i will go back for bait. It's all goldens however (not counting the occasional bullhead or pumpkinseed who strays into the trap) so i haven't got anything cool for my tank. )ok, I grabbed two bullheads, i wish i had a tank for the pumpinseeds but they'd likely be too agressive).
#7 Guest_logan_*
Posted 25 February 2010 - 10:48 AM
#8 Guest_mikez_*
Posted 25 February 2010 - 04:54 PM
.... pumkimseed is not a very aggresive fish. I have a 5" one watching me now in a 75 gallon. I have never had any problems with him being aggresive to any array of fish that have been in that aquarium. Except the feeder fish.
That might be an unusual individual. I have kept many P-seeds, big and small, males, females, species only, mixed groups, communities etc. If I were to use one word to describe their temperament, it'd be "Deadly". The victims are mostly sunfish and especially other P-seeds but they get pretty bossy even with big minnows.
Given a chance, a male P-seed will flat out kill another male sunfish if there's not enough room/cover for it to escape. The females are even mean.
#9 Guest_Jan_*
Posted 25 February 2010 - 05:38 PM
That's a lot of shiners!I went to set a minnow trap today. Something I did about 8 times before. I never had much luck trapping the local streams, i got 4 fish total before today and never more than 2 at once.
Instead of a stream I decided to trap a small marshy pond in my town. I heard it had sunfish and bullhead, and when i was a kid I made a stupid mistake of putting crappie in it (not sure if they survived or not). Last time I fished it small fish kept stealing my bait but i didn't think i'd have much luck with a minnow trap.
Boy was I wrong! I caught 44 golden shiners in 8 hours. Now I have a dilemma. What do I do with an aerated bucket holding 44 golden shiners?
#10 Guest_logan_*
Posted 25 February 2010 - 10:52 PM
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