Newer Minnow...Rosey Reds...Just didn't work..

[cagetrapper]

I've been seeing guys on Campbell Lake fishing and pulling up NICE Specks..So, I went to Gillett's Bait store, Spent around $60.00 and got everything..Plastic Minnow Bucket, Battery Operated pump to supply air, Rosey Red Minnows, Little Minnow Net, etc...

Went to Campbell Lake in the early morning on Wednesday..Put down a Rosey Red Minnow, and from 9:00 am, til 2:20 pm...Not ONE hit..

Oh well........I'll just keep the batterys going and try for possibly some Perch there on Saturday..

I HOPE there going to be calling off School on Thursday because of the Ice Storm were having now..

I'll just have to PRAY...then I'll be able to go all day.

Stan

[ICE PIRATE]

  I have never had any luck with them. I have tried them on 3 different lakes. I am having good luck with plastics I started using this season.

[doggbiter]

 Air pump.........?? why??

 I have kept several kinds of minnows alive, in a small bait "minnow bucket". For up to 2 weeks, and no dead....at all!
 Used to lift the inner bucket(strainer) couple times an evening, to bubble and oxygenate. This year I forgot about that trick, and still no dead minnows!
 Did however take them down to the river(here in town) and get new water after about 4 days.

[adkRoy]

Rosie reds work good for perch and salmon.

[PERCHPULLER]

Rosies are my favorite bait for perch

[seaweed01]

I have seen times when rosie reds are all the fish want and some days
they won't even look at them. That's fishing sometime they work and
other days nothing. A person just has to see what the fish want and
go from there.

[axtell31]

Rosies are one of the top baits here in the UP on the local lake I fish.  Are you sure there were fish were you were fishing?  Not sure if you have a grapher or not, but you may just have been where the fish werent if you didnt even get 1 hit

[cagetrapper]

Well.............

I just got some new stuff called " Fool a Fish" from Al and Bobs..They even have a website..www.foolafish .com

So, I checked them out and I HOPE I can get a Speck to hit them...

As for the Arriator..well........ ........I have Dead Minnows everyday...Don't know what's up w/ that.

Oh well...........

Talk to you soon.

Stan

[saranacjoe]

I've tried rosey reds but with no luck. I have bought them for son's oscar for which he named KILLER. He also like's Gold fish LOL.

[beeverfishing]

Hey cagetrapper,

Did you watch any of the video from foolafish.com??   Check out carson lands two.  http://www.foolafish.com/files/carson-lands-two.mpg  I sure hope their products are not as fake as this video !!!  Think they should rename it trytofoola-fisherman.

[ICE PIRATE]

 That video is a real knee slapper. Watch him shake the rod when he pulls those dead fish through the hole to make then look lively

[JJ]

Reminds me of a show I saw one time of a guy "catching" redfish in the Gulf of Mexico; they were alive, but they came in practically belly up with no fight whatsoever. Anyone who has caught reds before knows they put up a good fight. These had obviously been in a livewell for about a day. The truth is many big name "anglers" with their own shows go out and catch a bunch of fish, throw them in the livewell, then  go out later with a film crew to film them reeling the fish in. This is done to cut down on expenses, but it also cheats the viewers.
Sorry for the hijack,  but I did catch a nice landlock on a rosy last winter.