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It did not, I managed to get it into a gif then you couldn't see the fish once I uploaded it so I deleted it. I'll see if I can get onto my old photo bucket and link to it tonight

Creek minnows of 120 are likely small creek chubs or if you are lucky maybe bluntnose minnows which are a great minnow for your pond with YP and possibly walleye/trout. FHM do live in creeks, but are not often the dominant minnow present at least in MI-OH-IN.
If you get a secchi disk reading I can provide an estimate of how many total pounds of fish your pond will produce or support. Pellet feeding will increase that total fish poundage. Pellet feeding will be easier and better for your fishery and water quality compared to trying to increase the plankton bloom with lime and fertilizer.

I would guess 120, but not at once. I trapped the creek in march, april, and June, with maybe 3 days each. I think one time I had about 20 at once but the average would be about 10-15 with checking once or twice a day. I plan to use a secchi disk next weekend when I am there. I wish I had pictures of the minnows. I am also considering a feeder, the only thing worries me is during winter when there is ice I won't be able to feed. Any thoughts on that?

Now that I looked at some pictures on the Googler, I may have been wrong and they may in fact be bluntnose minnows. I really need a few pics of them because the baby creek chubs and blunt nose look similar

Is this one of the fish that you are talking about? I put the picture in your earlier post on page 1.

This was the fish brought out of my lake ice fishing mid February. Above my post they said it's probably not a white sucker since they are spawning in the lake but that's what I was told back in March in another post on here

Edit: this is the post that mentioned it is a white sucker
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=31309&Number=405192#Post405192

Chances are greater that someone used live bait in the pond and the sucker was an escapee rather than it was hatched in the pond. White suckers spawning in a pond is not impossible but it is very unlikely. If they are spawning in the pond you should be able to catch lots more of them. Small white suckers readily enter minnow traps that are baited with bread &/or cat/dog food.

I just found a video from I think it's from my may trip of these fish maybe spawning? They were in about 6 inch of water and had holes dug beneath the weeds I didn't even remember I had this video.

https://youtu.be/Ub8Hmxzkn0g

If I remember right there were anywhere from 40 to 60, some right here a school deeper and a school doing the same thing about 75 feet away

Video clarity is way too out of focus to recognize the type of fish. If you have white suckers spawning in the pond you are in a very elite class. Many fish farmers would like to know how to spawn suckers in a pond. Small suckers are excellent forage for walleye and SMB.

Yeah it was off my phone and I had to zoom in, when I would walk closer they would all go deep. But they definitely were the same fish as the pic from ice fishing.

i was reading through this post and just saw this, thank you it will help alot!