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What do y’all call a shiner? Shad, fat head minnow

 

It's name is actually the Common Shiner. Just a silver minnow.


We also use Dace up here if you trap.

 

Up in MN we usually get emerald shiners. They go anywhere between $8 to $13 a dozen.

 

They about the same as what we get. We buy buy em by the pound though.

 

To be honest, the only time we really use bait is for ice fishing or sown on smelt for trolling salmon + lakers

 

I'll use leeches in the spring for walleye and minnows through the ice, but the majority of my fishing is throwing plastics for bass and trolling crankbaits for pike/walleye/muskie

 

My rack and I’m climbing in it. Must have been asleep on the couch 2 hours. Lol

 

Sometimes shiners that are too big tend to set of traps if spool is too loose and your not aware of it

 

Not mine . I use jack traps

Dick

 

This

 

I'm assuming those are one of those automatic hook setting rigs? If so, I wish those were legal in mn.

 

Brighter colors (pink, orange, black fury) for overcast conditions

 

Yup

 

They're just a really well built trap from maine. Wind flags are almost impossible and you can stack nylon washers for reel tension

 

Pike are fun, but I prefer smallmouth.

 

Oh jeeze. Where to start. Plastics, spinners, topwater for LM. Buck hair jigs, crank baits, +1/4oz inline spinners also buck hair, and an assortment of flies for SM, fly fishing and ultralight spinners + mini rapalas for smaller trout. Trolling sinking tip line, downriggers or leadcore for salmon + Lakers or a 7wt with sinking line in the very start of spring.

We do it all up here haha

 

I love smallmouth too. Great fun

 

I'll be getting into them today. I fish this spot during the summer. They try to roll the jayak

 

This reminds me I have to get my FL license for next week; unfortunately my pop’s boat is at the marina getting a new water pump, on Florida time...

 

One of my favorite thi g is to catch channel cats through the ice. This is one my buddy got last year. The biggest I've seen come through the ice.