A few weeks ago we bot a whole chicken for the grill. The next day I was going to set my minnow trap and used the insides of the chicken for bait.
With somewhat of a current the chicken liver started to break up immediately and flow downstream, this brought tons of jumbo minnows upstream which filled my traps. It only took a few minutes for the liver to be completely gone, but there was other bait in the trap and it kept them coming.
Bot a container of 12 livers for 95 cents and put one in each trap now, along with some other bait…it catches the largest mud minnows I have ever seen, but there has to be current…not much current but a flow of water through the trap.
reelly…
www.LowTideRedfish.com
Thanks for the adv, chicken livers are a cheap bait, will try them out soon, were they nasty rotten chicken livers, or fresh chicken livers
Bragging may not bring happiness,
but no man having caught a large fish,
goes home through the alley.
-Anonymous
Did you have the traps around docks or in small creeks?
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Originally posted by Captain Mitch
A few weeks ago we bot a whole chicken for the grill. The next day I was going to set my minnow trap and used the insides of the chicken for bait.
With somewhat of a current the chicken liver started to break up immediately and flow downstream, this brought tons of jumbo minnows upstream which filled my traps. It only took a few minutes for the liver to be completely gone, but there was other bait in the trap and it kept them coming.
Bot a container of 12 livers for 95 cents and put one in each trap now, along with some other bait…it catches the largest mud minnows I have ever seen, but there has to be current…not much current but a flow of water through the trap.
reelly…
www.LowTideRedfish.com
Vienna sausage is 50 cents a can and catches me plenty of good minnows and shrimp in my net. Algthough I don’t doubt your chicken liver
SEAFOX 185DC MERC 125
[MRS KAREN]
14’TARPON 100 paddlepower
[SALTY FLY]
I have found the MM will eat just about anything. We use table scraps, old bread, dead mullet, etc., etc. What we have seen this year are some of the largest MM ever in our traps. These bads boys will actually pull a Cajun Thunder under when they are first put on the hook. I will only keep a few this size in our bait trough (75 gallon capacity on our dock) as they will eat the shrimp and smaller mullet with NO problem before we can go fishing!
quote:
Originally posted by Captain Mitch
A few weeks ago we bot a whole chicken for the grill. The next day I was going to set my minnow trap and used the insides of the chicken for bait.
With somewhat of a current the chicken liver started to break up immediately and flow downstream, this brought tons of jumbo minnows upstream which filled my traps. It only took a few minutes for the liver to be completely gone, but there was other bait in the trap and it kept them coming.
Bot a container of 12 livers for 95 cents and put one in each trap now, along with some other bait…it catches the largest mud minnows I have ever seen, but there has to be current…not much current but a flow of water through the trap.
reelly…
www.LowTideRedfish.com
Mud minnows will eat anything…and I have used everything but dirty underwear for 40 years. Just saying the livers are like chumming for yellowtail snapper…they just bring up the biggest and best.
I put my traps in a small creek, maybe 8 feet wide. Sounds weird, but catching big mud minnows, especially 5 or 6 dozen huge ones, makes my redfish happy, then my customers are happy, then I am happy and then most of the people around me are happy.
Don’t worry, be happy…and yes, it was steak and wine night.
reelly…
www.LowTideRedfish.com