Dead minnows

[Dano2]

What do some of you do with your minnows you dont use so they dont freeze and the wife wont let you keep themm in the house?

I have a bunch of dead ones I am saving for cat fish bait for this spring, but was curious if I could use the heads from the sucker minnows,
I read someone said using the head of a minnow along with your angel eye or forage minnow works well, but once you cut the head, its dead, so will the wallys bite?

What about a WHOLE dead minnow? Myself, i haven't had much luck with a dead minnow.

How are the swedish pimples for walleyes?

between the forage minnow,swedishpimple,and angel eye, what have you had the most succes with?

Stillwaiting for those glow devils

[Guest]

Book um Dano

I could'nt resist.

I have saved and used dead minners all year. I usually put all the dead ones in a jar with a bunch of salt and powdered aulm. I have had good success with them. They get a little tough,but what the heck. You could add some flavor like vanilla extract also for a added flavor.Give it a try. You dont have to use the alum,during the cold months.It just preserves them better.

[Lunker]

So far this ice season I haven't used a live minnow. I bought a few scoops at the beginning of the winter and froze them all. I have crappie minnows for eyes, both head and whole,and have had good success(jigging) and frozen suckers for dead bait on my tip up.

[Poutmaster]

A minnow head on any jigging spoon is the way to go. Although I prefer a "fresh" minnow head!

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[Norco]

Up here in Saskatchewan Canada it is prohibited to use live bait but guys catch walleye, perch, Jack, trout etc all the time with frozen dead minnows. Usually the head on a sweedish pimple. Guys even catch walleye on pieces of raw beef and sweedish pimples.

[Wables]

I use both the head half and the back half with spoons. I usually keep the dead ones from my dead stick, and pinch them in half when I need one. Some days the walleyes like the heads better, sometimes they like the tail better. I guess it is a coin toss. (Hee, Hee.) The tail half gives some pretty good action with a spoon.

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Wables

[upnorth]

I have the most success with Angel Eyes tipped with either the head or the tail of the minnow. It has been outfishing the dead stick four to one. I usually just cut a live or dead minnow in thirds and use what ever. Heads I win tails they lose.

I have only gotten back into ice fishing last year and this year is the first time I tried using jigging spoons and I wish I would have tried them earlier. For one it is more productive, 2nd not as boring as just watching a dang bobber sit there.

Scott

[This message has been edited by upnorth (edited 01-01-2003).]

[Pig_sticka]

heres my 2 cents like in every post

minnows already dead aren't as good. if you see a few floating in your bucket after a few days of letting them sit, dont use them. dead minnows have a really bad scent if you haven't already noticed and aren't that appealing to eat, even to a walleye. i usually just fish with fresh minnows. cut em up right before i am going to use them so they still have all the freshness. if they are frozen they wont smell so they definitely wont work as good as a fresh cut one. it also seems to help having a crappie minnow hooked so it swims on the angel eye. that extra movement along with the jiggin really helps i think. good fishing.

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[Crawlerman]

Well Catfish luv em dead atleast! Heh... it's like the smell of mac and cheese to them. Yum! heh