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If it’s an option trappin’s been good this week, warm water still has em active. I have enough to last for a good month now. Saves me from running around trying to find bait. Hopefully only have by smelts again this year.
I tired trapping my own shiners last year with zero luck. I tried I think 7 or 8 spots, all of which I was certain I’d pull something up 12 hours later. I have a minnow trap that I would set out with dog food for 12-18 hours and each time not a single minnow. It was early season around now and then right after ice over. When it was open water I’d toss the trap out, when there was ice I’d keep it 2-3’ below the ice. I tried a small stream/river where there was a large pool of not really moving water, I tried this small pond that’s weedy and no more than 5-6’ deep is a couple spots there (also the same body of water I ice fish on), I tried pretty much a mud pit that always has just 1-2’ of water, I tried a very small pond that’s so small it doesn’t have a name that had all kinds of cattail weeds, also tried a small pong on a local golf course. I am 100% positive it’s really the spots that I am trying that are just not good but looking for any tips or pointers on what I should be looking for for a good bait trapping spot. OP- sorry to hijack your thread just saw the success bhardy had and am jealous. Cheers!Thanks
The 10-15 bucks a week is worth not having to deal with the traps and tank and more so dealing with the turds that mess with the traps...
This is how I feel too Ray. Is what it is. Especially when many weekends I'm only buying a dozen chasing trout. It only gets a little pricey when I take my boy out bassin and we're smokin through 5 doz a day...lol
Just been buying my bait for the last 2 seasons except for the occasional hour or 2 jigging up big pondies. The 10-15 bucks a week is worth not having to deal with the traps and tank and more so dealing with the turds that mess with the traps...
I agree with this Bhardy. When I was younger living in Maine, we used to kill them everywhere. My old man actually had a bait business going out of the house that I'd help with. Of course that was 30 years ago and things can change but in my experience Maine was far superior than NH for catching bait.I've given up here in southern NH. Not a shiner to be had anywhere I can find.
Berry's bait on rt 11 in New Durham has shiners.
Hey James! Hope all is well!
Anyone know a place that has live medium shiners in stock now?
Leroy's Bait in Rochester 603-923-3009
Good call Steve! I can attest it's good bait. And probably the cheapest around
He sure tries! At 85 I'm surprise he still traps beaver and gets around like he does. Thanks for supporting him!
Is Leroy his real name Steve? Reason I ask is he reminds me of a old trapper I knew as a real young kid in Dover named Bob.
A homeowner woman was talking to me one day as I was about to go open water fishing at the access next to her house. Wishing me luck, blah blah.Then she told me that some people were there at times with traps "catching all those little fish that could have gotten bigger for you to catch" and she was "so angry" about them. She called F&G blah blah. Bad, bad men.Some people don't even know the difference between shiners and shinola (ha! See what I did there? I crack myself up) They are fighting an imaginary battle for an unreal cause. I probably should have tried to nicely explain things to her, but I just wanted to get away from her and go fishing. In retrospect, I should have at least tried to. Some folks might understand and stop messing with people's traps.Here's the kicker.....I had heard the fisherman's version of the story the year before. It was Jiggin.
I took Trapper Education with he and Mel Liston and Steve Lacrosse way back too.