I think they sell by the 100 around here...what's the goin price?

Here it's by the scoop, somewhere around 3 bucks a scoop.

Instead of messing with the scoops I just buy a whole pound of them.$16 for a pound.

Scoops, I'm wondering whos counting out a hundred?

Well seeing that the only water one could trap bait within 30+ miles of Fargo (red river has zebra mussels) and the fact that no one can transport bait in from Minnesota I can understand it.. I wonder if brothers 3 in Valley city has minnows?

When you're visiting your lady friend this spring head over to the Arkansas river and catch a bunch of skipjack, if you do any catfishing Gary.

3.00-4.00 a scoop of crappie minnows. 4.00-5.00 a scoop of fatheads 8-14 bucks for a dozen shiners

2.50-3 bucks a scoop

Dang, we have to buy them by the dozen. I'll bet no less than $5 a dozen for medium's.

When the pond minnows are sold(by the gallon), they come to $52.00 a gallon. Or 1/2 gallon for $28.00.

A gallon is about 1800-2000 minnows. Good for seeding your pond for live feed.

Around $15 a pound in arkansas for crappie minnows

What are you buying, we’re talking fatheads (perch, walleye and crappie minnows.) I think so anyway.

When I was a kid, working at Pats Bait and Tackle. It was me counting them in the early 90’s.


I don’t remember how much they were then, but they are around $2-3/dozen now. I just use minnow traps now when I need some. So not sure.

There has been a major population change in the Red River minnow species in the last 3 years = almost no emeral shiners or spot tails harvested creating a frozen minnow blip
over harvest in the spillway at Fairford River has crashed that population
Zebra mussel and spineywater flea have created some real problems

Thought we were TRAPPERS on here, trap & net your minnows

Yup! But, not everyone has access or resources to do so.

Maybe the Zebras will take the stain out of the red and we will need to rename it..

No place sells them here that I can find! Got to catch my own.

Sounds like a business opportunity.

Mediam dace are 7.50 a dozen here. And the new ontario bait fish zones are stupid to say the least. Now they are talking about not allowing any live bait for trout including leaches or dead frozen. Go figure.

Better yet don't mess with the minnows and buy a pack of tube jigs and some jig heads.

Ain’t that the truth, Lake Audubon had roads plowed on it but not now. I don’t know where your picture was taken but it screams “the Valley”.

they sell them by the dozen around here.
Most places don't count them out tho.
If you ask for a dozen you'll usually end up with 2 doz or more.
This is for smaller minnows and med sized ones.
Larger minnows they will count roughly and you'll end up with a couple more than you want.

Bad thing is the vast majority of places are like this.
But one or two will count out every single minnow giving you exactly what you asked for.
So then you have to but 2-3 dozen.

you learn to avoid those places.

I stopped using bait yeas ago. Mainly to avoid the time and extra work of carting around more stuff.
When fishing for some species its tougher without bait, others like trout its actually easier without the hassle of messing with live bait.

I have a rock bottom creek right below my house, it doesn't have a continuous flow of water, just pockets of water here and there. But in the summer there some pockets that hold a lot of minnows.

What would be a good way to trap them? In the past I have just netted them out with a long handled net, but that can get time consuming to try and get enough.

Smelt are 1.00 each up here

My friend Leroy and I used to go through huge numbers of minnows during the May white bass runs at CJ Brown Lake. We quickly learned which bait shop workers to get to fish out the minnows. One girl, who we avoided, counted out 2 dozen minnows one at a time from the dip net. One guy, at the bait shop, would put well over 40 minnows in our buckets if we bought 2 dozen. We each used 2 minnow buckets.

Keith

About $15 a pound here for shiners or rosie reds.

Price has sure went up

Dont even think about buying them in Wy I fished a lake in the middle of the state and good luck finding them and when you did it was 14 bucks a dozen and they count them. Very few lakes you can fish with live minnows though.

I don't know. We just call them shiners. I believe the bait stores buy them from people that raise them. I would love to learn how to catch the blue herring minnows out of the lake we fish. That is the main forage for the game fish now. That and shad. Shad are hard to keep alive though.

Bought a lb of shiners a year ago. Then later conditions were right and I caught a
bunch of wild shiners.
Today I have 8 of those left.
Two things I learned.
Do not over feed.
If not using conditioner, add a pinch of iodized salt to the tank.

The round minnow traps with a inverted cone on each end. Most are under $15
Go to Sheels, fish USA, or any other online sporting goods store and look up minnow traps if you don't have a bait store close by. Our local Walmart also sells them. Leave in overnight and next day they'll be in it.

i bait minnow traps with a little bread

Easy enough , been doing it for years. Native minnows are better. The fish are more familiar with them than some store bought shiners. Also more lively and less chance of introducing something unwanted in your local body of water. Bought this trap years ago , was originally galvanized , painted it black to blend in better. Catches crayfish too for bait.

About anything will work for bait

Crappie minnows here are around $4.50 a scoop and redtail chubs which are hard to get and really in demand in the summer for Walleye, sell for up to $15.00 a dozen. The big spearing decoy sized sucker minnows that I sometimes use on tip ups sell for up to $3.00 apiece. As a result of these prices, I have used artificials a lot more....especially on Walleyes.

I wish Wisconsin allowed a person to trap minnows effectively. We are not allowd to remove minnows from a body of water where they are caught, unless they are killed first.

Minnows here, in my neck of the woods are around 5-5 bucks a dozen last I knew… I have not bought any in years,,, I build my own minnow traps and catch minnows and creek chubs.

To many regulations here Wy. permits required and only certain minnows allowed just not worth it.