After you hook the minnow Charles, snip part of it's tail off, they swim
around in circles until that Lunker bass can't stand it anymore and puts the
creature out of it's misery, I also like to fish them without bobbers or
anything else, just a hook,line, rod and reel
"Ed Hughes" wrote in message
...
Not sure if it will help but I use minnows / shiners alot and found it was
much cheaper to just buy a galvanized minnow trap and catch what I needed
..
These can be found at Wally world for under $10 usually and catch much
more
than a dozen .

If you do locate fish with minnows it would be a good bet that some
various
light or silver colored crankbaits in various sizes and running depths
should get some good results ... you could also try a few imitation
minnows
in both crankbait and topwater varieties .

Ed Hughes

"Charles B. Summers" cbsummers@(bellsouth)(dot)(net) wrote in message
...
$15.00 per dozen!!! Wow... but I think I can handle that. Afterall, how
many
times in my life am I going to get to fish Okeechobee?

"Moe Conway" wrote in message
...

Charles, if you plan of fishing shiners, you need a 7' rod spooled
with
20+
test. Make sure the rod has enough backbone to work the fish from the
grass.
Plan on spending around $15 a dozen for the bait.

To anwser your 2nd question, shiners or live bait are often used to
locate
fish. Several tournaments have been won on fish located with live
bait.
The key
is finding a method to make them bite. If the fish are active, this
doesn't
pose a problem but if not, then you need to experiment until you find
what
it
takes. Locating the fish is always the hardest part in my opinion. If
I
can't
get located fish to bite, I often downsize my equipment and baits and
try
to
finess them. This seems to work almost anywhere.


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