Its funny that the only minnows allowed were fat heads considering that there are tons of diffrent minnows in the wild. I ahve recently become interested in collecting and keeping native fish. In a single little creek on the north shore of lake superior I have caught creek chubs, stickle backs, iowa darters and central mudminnows with in feet of each other.
I feel that fishermen, including myself, focus too much on the big fish. I was shocked when I first learned that minnesota has about 165 species of fish. How many people can name more that 15 off the top of thier head? I couldn't for along time. There are about 25,000 species of fish in the world and we only talk about stocking 12 or 13 of them. Thats okay, aquaculture generaly works better that way, it is easier to deal with only 2 or at most 3 fluctuating populations of fish. But nature has contrived a whole mess of diffrent fish, darters, kill fish, daces, chubs, shiners and stickle backs. And they all have thier place in lakes and streams.
