Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Fathead minnow breeding traps

Our lake corporation recently made four breeding traps for fathead minnows. Out of the four two are producing minnows for our bass. The cages are three foot by four foot by thirty inches deep. They have two boxes of courgated pipe forty by twenty eight with the pipe in them a foot long. This is all surrouded by a plastic mesh that is one eighth an inch. The idea was to let the adults reproduce and let the little ones out. The question is has anyone else made a minnow breeding trap and how did they do it? Are we on the right track or what?

John,

I looking to make something similar for my pond. Can you post or send me some pictures of the boxes you made or tell me where you got the mess material.

kevin

jkbochantin@charter.net

Kevin I will have to talk to the guy who got the material tomorrow. I can tell you that it is made of a tough plastic. But you can cut it with a pair of scissors.

Kevin I talked to Frank and he said that he got the mesh off the net from Memphis Net and Twine. As far as the pictures we are working on finding a guy in the corporation that has a scanner and try and get them to you.

John,

Thanks for the information. I was able to get out to their web site and found the netting. Looking forward to seeing your pics.

kevin

I once thought about doing something similar, but for shad. Putting a fence in my pond in about 4 feet of water to fence off about a 10 foot square. Fence to keep the bass out. Then adding shad into the fenced area. The thought was that the shad would reproduce, and the babies would swim out of the small mesh fence to grow. Never did it, added shad and they survived and proliferated. So didn't have to. But it should work. You could do the same type thing, but place pallets, limbs or such into the fenced area.

I finally got my nephew to teach me how to do this. Here are the pictures of the fathead minnow traps we built.