Stickem the small GSF go into minnow traps with bait really well and the advantage of catching them small is they are out of the pond before they eat a lot of groceries (taking them away from other desirable fish) to grow.
Set three or four minnow traps and you can get hundreds out pretty quick.
You can trap the next size bigger if you enlarge the opening of the trap (normally 1") to about 1 1/2 to 2" but the fish will eat the food and come right back out. So when I use my modified traps I bait them and check them in about 15 minutes. Check them before all the bait is eaten up. I move lots of CNBG from my sediment pond to my main pond that way too. If you have about 4 or 5 traps you can just about stay busy as by the time you dump and bait the last trap the first one is ready to check again.
GSF go in traps really well. They tend to hang out in shallow water and are real chow hounds, so they go in after the food well.
Last edited by snrub; 06/14/16 08:25 PM.
