traping bait

[tbtool]

Ill agree the black plastic traps suck compared to the galvanized ones.  But last year i took one of the glo sticks that kids use when trick or treating and that seamed to attacked more fish to the trap.  Try different things.  You never know. 

[Captain Time]

thanks for the welcome and no i dont play hockey i have heard similar things about the black traps. i think i just found a good pond tho cause i just pulled in over 100 minnows out of two of my black ones in a farm pond down the street.
i was gonna try spray painting the black ones gloss silver if they didnt catch anything.

[billditrite]

i have seen the same results...black ones suck 

[Captain Time]

my first day with the black ones turned out pretty good. turned out that what i thought was 100 minnows was 286 out  of just two traps. also caught 60 tapoles and a huge beetle.

[billditrite]

wow thats a good haul!! guess youll be all set for opening day!!

[big big rdg]

When you catch the bait how do you store them and what do you have to do to keep them alive until we get ice? I was thinking about putting a trap out somewhere to try my luck. Thx

[Captain Time]

goneicefishin has a huge horizontal freezer in his garage that we've been throwing ours in. he's got a few aquarium aerators in it. weve got about 830 fish in there as of last night.
depending on how many your hoping to catch you could use a regular cooler too.

[Bluefinforme]

thanks for the welcome and no i dont play hockey

I played hockey with a guy named Micha.......just curious

[Captain Time]

jut a couple pics of goneicefishin's live well we've been filling up for the past couple weeks. just dropped about 500 in there today.
probably close to 1500 in there total.

[Scott Wright]

I haven't seen anything that's made me more "antsy" to go ice fishing than those pictures... Now, I've really got the bug!!

[goneicefishin]

hey those pics didnt come out half bad   

[moosehunter]

nice shinners. be sure to change the water when it gets murky and the colder it is the longer they will last.you can try feeding them with goldfish food but isn,t necessary.don,t put to many in at once because you will loose them anyways.i tryed the tank thing but lost too many toward the later part of the season. now i have a box in a small brook thats running all winter. they keep real good and all i have to do is bust a little ice once in awhilec to get at them.