Hello all. What do you think is the best minnow trap bait for this time of year with the crabs starting to disappear? Thanks–
SBS
Cat food works well, but if you have a good spot all you need is a slice of bread
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Those little cans of weenies work great. Hard to beat the convenience of those little cans and they tell me they come all the way from Vienna. 
dog food works too
ANY KIND OF FISH HEAD. I ALWAYS KEEP 2 OR 3 FLOUNDER HEADS IN THE FREEZER TO USE WHEN I GO BACK OUT.
I like stale sliced bread. It creates a crumb trail in the current which helps them to home in on the trap.
take flounder heads put in crab trap. catch crabs put in minnow trap. catch minnows go fishing and catch flounder, repeat.
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+1 on slice of bread (fresh or stale). Works great for me for over 30 years.
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Pungo 120Walmart sells cheap catfood for about 37 cents a can. One tablespoon of that on 1 slice stale bread.
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Curious about the stale bread (suggested by a few people). If you are going fishing and you don’t have any bread. Do you postpone the trip until you go to the store and buy some bread and then wait a few days til the bread goes bad and then hurry over to the ditch/creek with this bag of bad bread and pull out one piece of this perfected “stale bread” before it becomes hard tack?
And after adding the “one tablespoon” of cat food… do you leave the rest of the cat food in the trunk of the car?
:smiley:If that works for you guys… God bless you.
A sausage has alwys yielded excellent results for me. You’re not going to go wrong with any kind of bread, oily meats/fish, crushed blue crab, etc.
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get a human foot from the medical university…
they really hold up well.
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Fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
Any fish part left over from cleaning them. Dog food does work good too.
Just about all of those work good…not sure about the human foot, but who knows (lmao). I always thought regardless of bait that the falling tide…about half way down…produced more and bigger minnows. I think the scent trail has something to do with it.
The best bait I have every used is shrimp heads. Used them 3 years ago. After cleaning a cooler of shrimp I stuck some heads in the freezer and tossed in a hand full the next time I set my trap. It was full and there was a slob minnow stuck in every head.
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The medical school parts don’t work very well; minnows don’t survive the formaldehyde. There’s probably some neighborhood in Charleston you could get them fresh.
Sardines in soy bean oil… they are fish steaks and when the trap is full you give it a sharp tug and all the bait falls out and you only have minnows in your trap… clean and they LOVE it…
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