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Old May 8th, 2004, 11:27 AM
Dale Coleman
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Default Feeding and attracting wild shiners?

On Fri, 07 May 2004 21:55:43 GMT, "Ed Hughes"
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Just get a minnow trap ( galvanized wire mesh 2 piece ) at Wally's about $9
I think . Then what I did is add a small wire bait box to the inside, to
keep the litle buggers from sucking it out from the outside . or a bait bag
of some kind might work also .
I generally start with just bread .. if that isn't quite enough , or the
minnows are too small add something with garlic or cheese ( even slices of
cheese broken into small enough pieces to fit the bait holder.

Ed


Hi Ed and the group, I think there may be some confusion over the type
of Shiner I'm trying to catch. They are called the Golden Shiner and
grow to over 12 inches long. Even the smaller ones that I'm trying to
catch for bass bait are much too big for a minnow trap.

Using a cast net is the best way to catch them.

A multi hook poll will also work in some areas but every time I tried
it the bream would get there first.

Even with the cast net I'm still running about 4 bream to each shiner
but when you make a nice cast and get 40 fish in the net the numbers
don't look so bad ;-)

Thanks, DC


"Dale Coleman" wrote in message
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Hi all, the other day I went down to the local lake and threw out some
bread near the weeds waited a bit then tossed my cast net.

I was surprised to find some nice wild shiners in the net. For some
reason I had thought the lake mostly held bream.

This got me thinking it would not take much to feed and attract many
more shiners.

So my question is what are the best feeds to use that might attract
the shiners but maybe discourage the bream some? What I have observed
is the bream are quick to take bread on the surface but the shiners
seem to like to stay down a bit, does that sound right? Maybe a feed
that sinks would work best???

Thanks, DC
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