June, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
347 
E XCELLENT results can be secured by 
keeping minnows in a receptacle like 
a tub or any large vessel. Where a 
pen is in a stream or lake, the water is 
well aerated, but in a land pool, aeration 
must be furnished artificially. To gain this 
purpose a large barrel is set on a stand 
beside the minnow pool or tub. At the 
bottom is a small hole which lets fall a tiny 
stream of water, often no more than a 
dribble, which will fret the surface of the 
pool. This puts sufficient air in the water 
and keeps the minnows brisk, alive and 
alert — essentials in a good fishing minnow. 
Such a barrel should last all day, but it can 
be filled any time and requires but a little 
trouble. As in the lake pen, so it is a 
good idea to place water moss (northern 
moss) in the tub. The best minnows and 
the liveliest are to be had ^vhen ice is placed 
in the tub or receptacle. This keeps the 
minnows fresh and active. And the more 
active the minnow, the better it attracts 
the fish. 
For large fish — large bass, wall-eyed pike 
and lake trout — the better size of chubs and 
shiners give spontaneous results. But these 
larger shiners are rarely netted, and so the 
smaller ones are the most in use. 
Shiners are often found in creeks, where 
they can be caught with a small hook. But 
a better method, convenient if you are 
located near a lake, is as follows : Set a 
bright light on the beach after dark; a bon- 
fire will do. The better the light, the more 
wide-spreading, attractive and alluring it is. 
The shiner schools in the lake see this light 
and out of curiosity are drawn toward it 
and often come very close to the shore. 
About three-quarters of an hour after the 
light has been set, wade out in the lake a 
good distance and work a minnow seine 
shoreward toward the light. Two men can 
work the net. One haul is liable to yield 
enough five-inch and even six-inch shiners 
to last a month. 
Comparatively few people take advantage 
of one simple hint. Don’t believe that the 
home lake contains no shiners, just be- 
cause you may never have seen any there. 
Shiners and chubs in a lake keep themselves 
mysteriously hidden at all times. But it 
is the schools of shiners that the preying 
fishes follow in the lakes, and so these same 
shiners, used on a hook in the right haunts, 
are exceptionally productive — to the man 
who cares to use live bait. 
For hooking small two-inch minnows a 
fine shanked hook must be used. Two 
methods are in use for taking them : First, 
the hook is inserted just forward of the 
tail, up from the anal fin. Never hook 
through the minnow’s spine as this is sure 
death to him. Hook in alongside of the 
spine and you will have better results. 
Second, the hook may be hooked through 
the lips of the minnow, and it may be 
fished naturally in the water. In the for- 
mer method the minnow swims around with 
the hook. In the second (known as the 
HenshaH method) cast the minnow and 
work it here and there and toward your- 
self. 
For minnow fishing the time-honored 
HenshaH type of rod is a good one. 
It is about eight and one-half feet in length 
— long and limber, something on the order 
of the fly-rod, though it is essentially a bait 
rod in every respect. 
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