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The carp seem to be spawning in most of your lakes and rivers, when can I expect to start catching minnows with my minnow trap?
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you want to trap carp minnows?

i have found it is hard to use traps carp minnows.

much easyer to use a cast net to catch them!
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[cool][#0000ff]It is different every year. This year the spawn was late and spread out. You should start seeing small ones by the first of July and bigger ones not long after that. They grow fast.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As the fuzzy one advises, a cast net will catch more and quicker...if the minnows are along a clean shoreline. However, if they are staying back in flooded brush and around reeds, then the traps work best.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Right now you can catch chubs in many canals and farm ponds. Redside shiners in Scofield and Electric Lake. Used to be a lot more in Strawberry but the cutts are doing their job and eating them.[/#0000ff]
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