Bait

[wnyguy]

The first time I saw minnows on the ground like that I was really annoyed and disgusted as well. In all honesty from what I have seen most people are pretty careful and try to keep all they collect, but there is always a bad apple, you know how that goes. Also you have to understand that those minnows are flipping all over the place when you net them, and it's easy to lose a few. Multiply that by lots of people and the minnows start adding up.

But mostly what happens is the infrequent moron who just doesn't care, if he misses the bucket and hits the ground he just nets more. It only takes one like that and you end up with minnows all over the place.

[lineman49]

I have tried picking up some that were dropped & its tuff grabbing those lively, slippery little suckers, especially with no finger nails!!

[captainjoe]

I heard the other day that a few weeks ago the minows were in very tick but the numers have drastically reduced in the last few days. Where do they go? deeper?

[fishkiller16]

We dipped minnows this morning at the Foot of Ferry they were in real thick I dropped the net 4 times and filled 2 3 gallon buckets. They were real nice minnows too, we only fished a couple hrs and just as we got into the perch the weather turned to ****, the winds picked up and the rain started.

[captainjoe]

Jim - I'm glad to hear that you at least got out. Where did you go? I was driving today and as I got further to Buffalo the weather got worse. The info that I receiived from a reliable source about the minnows is true. It's from the inner harbor, slip area. At least you had a good minnow catch.