I am curious if anyone here on the forum has any experience with a glass minnow trap. Do they work better than the wire traps?
Number of minnows in a trap has a lot to do with who set it.
It's a lot like asking everyone at the bar what gun you should shoot a deer with.
First location, location, location. There has to be a population in the body of water to trap. Density of pop. will determine success. Then tempurature, DO , natural food source. Then structure and habbittat, places to hide from predators, that goes back to the density thing.
If all three are met, sometimes you need to bait a trap and sometimes not. Baiting usually works better. Cat food dog food bread, onion, oatmeal.
Social behavior, sometimes it just takes having one fish in your trap to bring in others.
Trap design - entrance size is the biggest concern. Most fish that enter can leave, say when all the food is gone or the rest of the school swims away.
Gees vs black mesh traps is an interesting example, usually gees do work better, but the black traps can be manipulated to work well too, like better location location locTion. Bait to match, and checking before all bait is gone.
The glass traps wood be fun to try, but I'd Probly break them.
