Someone posted earlier about birds that can be taken, pidgeons and starlings, so chickadee is out of the question. Just a question I had is all about alternatives to pike minnows they are very hard to come by in my neck of the woods at bait shops, mostly they have 3 in bass shiners, they work but pike bait is 3$ a minnow here and hard to come by.
Well, they go after the big 'coon tail bucktails, maybe a nice fluffy squirrel tail would work. I can send ya all the rotten skwirrels ya want...and I'll throw in a passel of those viscous C'munks, too.