Catching Minnows...Video

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Good stuff Pat. Thanks for the refresher. I need to restock. Had an unfortunate freezer mishap and lost everything. I'll never use a black trap again. After being side by side and seeing your green trap gather several dozen to my 3 lonely fish, it was obvious that green had an advantage.
  I have to agree with Skunked, I sometimes get more excitement out of a successful minnow trip than a normal day at the lake. One of my favorite trips with my son was a bait run. While I was floating some crawlers he wandered over to a small section of the river with a 'waterfall' to toss stones. Just a few small boulders were sticking up in the current and created a choke point for upstream travel. When he got there he noticed several minnows swimming upstream through his waterfall, much like salmon heading up to spawn. He spent a couple hours kneeling in the rocks catching minnows with his hands as they jumped forward out of the water. He put more in the cooler than my traps did.

My three kids (now grown and with kids and grandkids of their own) used to love to go fishing and minnowing with me too.  My oldest son Mike was pretty good with a flyrod and had a ball catching golden shiners on small flies while I fished crankbaits and plastics for bass in a small lake near our home in Sacramento.  One of my fondest memories is hearing his voice coming out of the night darkness "One more cast, Dad"...while I was sitting in the car with the other two kids and the motor running...waiting to go home.  Kinda made me believe in heredity.