Anyone know what this fish is?
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01/16/19 10:13 PM
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Re: Anyone know what this fish is?
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Re: Anyone know what this fish is?
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01/16/19 11:44 PM
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Yep mudminnow. The first one I ever saw I found on the ice as I was chopping a hole in the ice for a muskrat set. It splashed up on the ice and I put it in my coat pocket to take it home to id it. I remembered it about 3 hours after I got home and it was still alive. Put it in a glass of water and it lived on my counter for 4 days until I let him go. Very tough fish. They stay alive on a hook forever too but aren't very good bait. A emerald shiner will outfish a mud minnow 20 to 1.
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Re: Anyone know what this fish is?
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01/18/19 02:08 PM
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Jeff that was an interesting design for the funnel and attachment.....going to change my muskrat funnels like that
These traps are also used for Muskrat, mink and otter here. Its a traditional trap for under ice, and works great. (legal here).
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Re: Anyone know what this fish is?
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01/18/19 04:42 PM
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These small fish were and still are a very important food source in the winter for Yupik Eskimos's in western Alaska. In the middle of winter you can chop a hole and get protein, (that taste good ) They are eaten whole frozen, or boiled, and used for dog feed as well. Give anyone here a bag of them and you will be thanked profusely. If you find a place that they are boiling in a hole to breath oxygen, you can catch fox all day long. As fox get fat sitting there eating them all day. I suggest give them a try
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