Minnows?!?

[IcedBush13]

I have never fished with minnows and i was wondering if anyone has used them for trout? If so what kind of presention do you use? I would assume a jig with it run through like it was swimming.  Any thought?

[WyoZac]

Live minnows threaded on a treble hook with a medium sized egg sinker about a foot above hook, and set anywhere from 2-15ft below the ice has been very productive for large trout.

[IcedBush13]

Live minnows threaded on a treble hook with a medium sized egg sinker about a foot above hook, and set anywhere from 2-15ft below the ice has been very productive for large trout.

so you put a minnow on each hook through the lips? so thier are three minnows

[LT]

Might try jigging it hooked through the lip on a 3/8 ounce swedish-pimple spoon 8 feet down in 20-25 ft water...extremely productive...and no less than 10 pound test, cause they hammer it!
                                             LTeeeeee 

[Mooter]

1 minnow hooked right behind the dorsel fin with a size 8 circle hook w/ 18 inches of leader small egg sinker to a tipup 2 feet under the ice over 30 to 40 of water

[IcedBush13]

these all work for rainbows right.

[WyoZac]

so you put a minnow on each hook through the lips? so their are three minnows

Use a baiting needle, start right behind the head and run the needle down there back and come out by the tail pull the leader through the minnow. the hook should sit right behind the head. Minnows will stay alive forever if there hooked up right, or untile they get hit by a big fish

[SLAYERFISH]

I use a light wire hook and hook them from under the lips up through the nose.  I use 6lb test and a couple 3/0 split shots.  They stay lively this way forever or until the trout slams them.

[benwyo]

I use a light wire hook and hook them from under the lips up through the nose.  I use 6lb test and a couple 3/0 split shots.  They stay lively this way forever or until the trout slams them.

Slayerfish
I hook them the same way you tell of here. They will stay alive all day long. I even take them off at the end of the day, and throw them in the bait bucket, and they stay alive until the next day of fishing, or until the next weekend I go fishing. They very seldom die hooked this way.

Ben
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