Gonna use minnows to catch some largemouth (or try to) so I'm about to trap some using a wire mesh trap I got from BPS.

What is good to put in those for bait?

Thanks!

Sorry I just noticed another thread about trapping minnows and it looks like dog food is a good bait.

Slice of bread will do the trick as well.

For trapping minnows and craws, use a can of seafood-flavored cat food that was stabbed up with a flathead screwdriver. It works great, lasts long, and it's clean.

use a bread tie to hang a few slices of onions. works 2x better than bread, dogfood, etc.... also it last much longer

my uncle bought one of those in the spring. we used bread in it the couple times we used it. the problem with bread is it floats to the top and all the fish hang around the top of it plucking at the bread. we caught a total of 3 small bluegill, wouldve been 4 but we left one in there and he got out eventually. never heard about the onion thing, sounds interesting. so does the can of catfood. i imagine hard dogfood would float too.

Onions???? Seriously? 'I’ll have to give that a try. I didn't think they would eat onions, lol.

Onions???? Seriously? 'I’ll have to give that a try. I didn't think they would eat onions, lol.

I have been traping minnows for over 60 years. Have tried everthing I could think of and onions are the best bait I ever tried.

Kelley

Cool...thanks for the tip....I'm going to try it!

Don't know anything about spending money for cat food just to catch a couple of minnows. Get yourself an empty plastic Kraft Miracle whip quart jar (price $.00), a canning jar lid ring (cost $.05), a empty soda pop plastic bottle (cost $.00). Use a knife or scissors ro make a funnel out of the top. Then invert the funnel and secure it in the mouth of the jar with the canning ring. Bait with a crumbled up saltine cracker.

Can't find a Miracle Whip jar, use a fruit jar but be careful to not break the glass.