Think crawfish in winter are strange , well .....

[gldndemon]

I have a small <1/8 acre> pond on my land with 4 species  of shiners       . Come september, i could walk across the pond there were so many . So, i figure i'm set for this winter . This past January i set my trap twice . Both times no shiners but had salamanders . Never saw one in winter before. Don't know what the heck happened to my shiners as there were zillions of 'em in the fall.

[sticks]

might be an oxygen saturation issue, i caught alot of tadpools and one salamander this year

[Sawyerjosh]

Drill a hole and set a trap- maybe you just got one big fish left

[LeadRemovalguru]

what do you use for bait in the trap?  and i can only get shiners in jan-feb march they die out or get trap shy..

[gldndemon]

Well, i don't think it's oxy cause salamanders need cleaner oxegenated water than shiners . I was using same as summer bait which was dry dog food . 

[moosehunter]

sometimes in winter the go in the mud and kinda hibrnate. check after ice out and you'll find they are still there. if a pickeral or bass gets in there forget it. good luck. always wanted my own shinner pond.

[sticks]

set a tip up and see if you get anything hits it

[TommyT]

Well, i don't think it's oxy cause salamanders need cleaner oxegenated water than shiners .

I do some vernal pool surveys in the spring, salamanders can breed in some pretty disgusting, polluted, oxygen depleted pools.  What kind of salamanders were they? Yellow or Blue spotted? redback?

[robbfishing]

did you have a permit for this ?

[scottly0]

I would ask the mod to remove this post pronto.  My legal two cents.

[Greenz]

This time of year I get most of my shiners right under the ice and these are very small ponds.

[GlovelessPro]

Can't beat 2-3 slices of wonder bread for shiners 

[cdc]

I would ask the mod to remove this post pronto.  My legal two cents.

Dont need a mod to remove a post if your the one that posted it...

[fshnfool]

Dont need a mod to remove a post if your the one that posted it...

the post he was looking to get yanked is already gone chris......it was just before his....

[cdc]

the post he was looking to get yanked is already gone chris......it was just before his....

  Oh....Now you see it now you dont.

[Sawyerjosh]

I still wanna know if you set a tip-up yet??