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I will be using a single pole or two.
Straight down fishing while drifting or with the trolling motor on real slow.
I assume with the lack of the ability to buy minnows you just use a jig?
Alternate colors till you find what they like that day?

Or would you cast and retrieve something like a road runner ?

Gonna try my hand at it a little more this winter I believe.


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I used to buy minnows any time around KY lake when I was after crappie. Of course I haven't been to Ky lake in two years and quit crapping really probbably five years ago. The minnows were my main bait in the winter. I remember one Martin L. KINg holiday It was 14 degrees that morn plus a north wind and I was the only idiot on the lake. I went and caught a good bunch of crappie.

Slow, slow movement when in cold water.

Now I am a " trout specialist" and working on " bluegill specialist" :D

I need to get out to Garrett and catch something.
 
woodyard":31vnv7j7 said:
I used to buy minnows any time around KY lake when I was after crappie. Of course I haven't been to Ky lake in two years and quit crapping really probbably five years ago. The minnows were my main bait in the winter. I remember one Martin L. KINg holiday It was 14 degrees that morn plus a north wind and I was the only idiot on the lake. I went and caught a good bunch of crappie.

Slow, slow movement when in cold water.

Now I am a " trout specialist" and working on " bluegill specialist" :D

I need to get out to Garrett and catch something.
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Lol heard that!
If I crappie fish it will be at garrett lol

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i use jigs year round, tipped with gulp minnows or charlie brewer sliders with crappie nibbles. in the spring and fall i do use road runners tipped with crappie nibbles but im casting them. about the only time i use live minnows is for sauger and this year im gonna try the big gulp minnows. i hate messing with minnows especially in cold weather.
 
RUGER":2wr3ffj8 said:
pressfit":2wr3ffj8 said:
Do you not have a minnow trap?
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Funny you mention that.
After I posted this and read the replies I thought to myself, heck I got a minnow trap in the shed. :D
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yeah, i would check out the regs on those traps because in one of the TWRA videos i posted they talked about wanting to change the dimensions or openings on the traps. i dont remember exactly though.
 
WTM":2k84g3wh said:
RUGER":2k84g3wh said:
pressfit":2k84g3wh said:
Do you not have a minnow trap?
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Funny you mention that.
After I posted this and read the replies I thought to myself, heck I got a minnow trap in the shed. :D
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yeah, i would check out the regs on those traps because in one of the TWRA videos i posted they talked about wanting to change the dimensions or openings on the traps. i dont remember exactly though.
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Hmmm,
Where would a man find out about that?
I bought this minnow trap probably 20 years ago.
It is a little metal deal and the openings are probably an inch by 2 inches on each end.
Only used it one time in my dad's pond and caught a bunch of tadpoles and a slew of crawdad's that were about 2" long. :D
Oh and one bream about an inch long too. LOL
 
i found it and it was pertaining to expanding commercial fishing traps they can use. it also said something about a creel limit on the different classes of baitfish.
 

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