Sure wish I had your "eat anything" minnows 🤣. These Colorado minnows laugh at attempts to trap them. Haven't found the right bait yet, but dog/cat food didn't work. Bread didn't work either.
crushed vienna sausage and a boiled egg still in the shell but crushed enough for the yellow to start falling apart has always worked for a full trap in just about 10 minutes
My favorite bait hook for smaller live bait like mud minnows and sand fleas is a 1/0 gamakatsu Octopus hook. It’s got the right size for most small bait and it’s stout enough to not have to worry about it bending out
Great video. There is a tidal creek running by my house that I usually catch mud minnows for fishing. Like he said they will eat everything. What I use most is stale bread. And I have used dog food also. But what I have found the most surprising is this. The bank to the creek is on a sloped hill. Usually when I catch the minnows I will take out what I need for the day of fishing to put in my bubbler bait bucket. Then I realest the rest of them back into the creek. I will usually close the trap and set it up on the bank behind the tree that I keep it tied to. There have been time where I have gone out to rebar the trap and throw it in the day before fishing, but the trap had slid down the bank and into the creek due to wind,weather or whatever. But I’ll pull up the trap and it’s full of minnows even though there was no bait in the trap. I have come to believe that in this creek the minnows may use it as a safe hiding spot from turtles that I have seen swimming around the trap sometimes when pulling it up. Don’t know if this is the case. But it is really easy to catch them. Year round. And they are really tough bait also.
Hey Austin, I had sent the SST (Salt Strong Team) two emails with questions which you answered: One email on 11/9 was entitled "Types of Lures to Use." And the other on 11/27, entitled "Braided Fishing Line Questions." Nice to put a face to your replies. Thanks for all you and the other team members do!
Blue crab is the absolute best bait for the Mud Minnows, hands down. the best method is to crush the crab and put in a panty hose inside the trap, it will keep them from tearing it to pieces and allow more to come in the trap after fresh food. You can reuse the same panty hose multiple times before they tear it up. I catch 1-2 dozens per pull most of the time in an hours time. I have a 55 gallon drum in my apartment ive turned into a live well. I can keep 20-30 dozen at a time alive for weeks or even months if i feed them and replace the water atleast once.
@saltstrong i have a question im a 13 year old boy livinng in south florida what should i buy for snook fishing what reel and rod for pier snook fishing
I have found that if your trap is shallow the mud minnows can see you approaching and will swim out really fast. I think it’s best to stay out of sight and pull your trap fast to really get all that are in there. I make little golf balls of cat food and fish flakes and freeze them for bait. They work great.
Hey salt strong what reel do you recommend for saltwater fishing inshore for artificial the Diawa bg or the Diawa fuego or is there another option you recommend
You can easily make your own by buying two metal mesh black trash containers from dollar tree..every bit as effective if you make right.alterations..for all of 2 or 3'bucks.
We have mud minnows as well. The type we have are first cousins with the northern pike. They hunt like pike,and act like pike. They are very much protected in my state I am not allowed to use them for bait.
I do have a question for you my friend. I drop my traps in with The appropriate bait and I get a couple of chubs and basically a trap filled with dozens and dozens of green crabs.. I would sell my dog if I could figure out a way to MacGyver the traps so they were six or eight inches above the bottom so the crabs would have more of a chore than getting in. I live in Marshfield and we have miles and miles of ditches Dug by veterans following world war II. The problem is they are bone dry when the tide is out but I'm still trying to find the right spots. Any suggestions on reducing the number of crabs in the trap or locations that are brackish but don't go dry? No worries you have a great day my friend.
Here I am trying to catch mid minnows in the creek near my house, can’t find em in 1-6 feet of water so I guess I’ll have to go deeper in my kayak with the trap
Water can’t have current salt pond with little current is fine 1’ of water is fine near the edge I used Vienna sausage crack the lid pore juice off foil lid back on self don’t take off
@@JohnJones-zm3nb dude I catch em in salt creeks, the only current is tidal flow. This was also February when the water was in the 40’s in my area. Now I can catch em without trying, once it warms up I usually end up snagging em with top waters way up in the marsh
Wouldn't it be better if those traps were made with half a basket and half a bucket without holes... !?! That way when you pull it out you already have your bucket And they will obviously find their way in with only one hole at one end but it would be harder for them to out so thats also better
Always heard that the silver ones are better than the darker ones but that’s not on personal experience as I haven’t caught mud minnows just read about it a bunch. Any comments curious thank you.
Try Flamin' Hot Cheetos instead! I personally don't like the taste of them, but I have seen the water turn into what looked like a boil while they were fighting over the small pieces! Easily comparable to a school of piranha on a chicken leg!
@@Florida_Man_Robb Sorry for the late reply. Yeah, we just take a hand fullbdoritos, put them in the trap and then toss it out in the water. Thevlast ones I used where just the nacho cheese one. I've used cool ranch too. They seem to last for quite a while.
@saltstrong i have a question im a 13 year old boy livinng in south florida what should i buy for snook fishing what reel and rod for pier snook fishing
