The large flexible minnow would be a capital bait for jack in lakes or deep rivers; and the glass minnow is also good.
The flexibleminnow would be a capital bait, drawn after the boat, when the trout are not inclined to take the fly.
Illustration: Kingfisher] As he sat one day in stillness a Minnow leaped from the water and caught a Fly.
The three stragglers separated, the Hawk to the left, the Kingfisher to the right, the Minnow flopped back into the pool, and the Mink was left on the shore with a mouthful of feathers and looking very foolish.
When a phantom minnow sticks in my clothes, I snap the gut off, and put on another, so that when I reach home I look as if a shoal of fierce minnows had attacked me and hung on like leeches.
It is as simple as trolling a minnow from a boat in Loch Leven, probably the lowest possible form of angling.
He had a great minnow in his throat, and must have been a particularly greedy animal.
The little loop was still on the fragment of minnow tackle which fastened it to the cast.
The minnow is allowed to sink to half the depth of the water and reeled in slowly, which gives a lifelike motion to the bait when hooked through the lips.
The method of casting the minnow for black-bass answers well for the channel-cat, though the casts should not be so frequently made, and more time should be allowed for the display of the minnow in mid-water.
I may throw off a minnow once in a while by a very long cast, but it is soon replaced, and costs nothing.
A small fish, mullet or sardine, or fiddler-crab bait, will prove very enticing to the snook, though the minnow is better adapted for casting.
The minnow is to be hooked through the lips and cast as in black-bass fishing, reeling it in slowly on or near the surface.
Golden Shiner proceeded to fill his minnow bucket with lively minnows, using for the purpose an umbrella-like folding net.
The bait may be a minnow or a very small trolling-spoon; if the latter, it should have but a single hook.
I have never tried casting with a spoon, which might be successful, but a minnow is better by far.
The minnow is best hooked through both lips, but if they are very small, they may be hooked just under the dorsal fin.
The bass first seizes the minnow crosswise or tail first, turns it in his mouth, and swallows it head first.
One can give a more natural motion to the minnow on drawing it through the water.
The Doctor, lightly equipped with only rod, fly-book, and creel, sometimes relieved the Shiner by toting hisminnow bucket or minnow net.
For still-fishing, hooking through the tail or under the back fin will answer; but even then I prefer my method, unless the minnow is less than two inches in length.
Every minnow in this stream--they are very scarce, mind you--has a silver tail.
No one who had ever seen the Pond Club's Minnow Room was likely to forget it.
Because of its widespread occurrence, and for purposes of later discussion, I refer to this minnow also as an ubiquitous species in the Big Blue River Basin.
The bluntnose minnow preferred the clearer creeks, with gravel or gravel-silt bottoms, but occurred rarely in the mainstream of the Big Blue River.
With the whole lake stretching mockingly before him he sits consumed with a preposterous, a fanatical faith in the little half-inch minnow dangling at the end of his line.
And the leviathan rises in one ocean to go to rest in a second, While the depth of a puddle by a humble minnow as the depth of the sea is reckoned.
Many times each season fishermen would come and pit their skill against his cunning; but never a fly could tempt him, never a silvery, trolled minnow or whirling spoon deceive him to the fatal rush.
Then the minnow was borne down upon the mud, out in the broad sheen where, a little before, the tadpole had been basking.
After eating the minnow it somehow failed to recover its appetite, and remained, all the rest of the day and through the night, clinging to one of the weed stems.
The middle seat should contain both a fish well and a minnow box with a dividing partition and with two hinged lids fitted into the seat.
The regulation minnow bucket consists of one pail fitted inside of another, the inner one being made of wire mesh to permit the free circulation of the water.
The minnow bucket should be close at hand to transfer them to and care must be used not to injure them or allow them to scale themselves in their efforts to escape.
A fisherman's minnow bucket is excellent for this purpose and the water can easily be freshened and the contents of the pail reached by simply lifting out the inside pail from the water, which will drain out.
It looks very like a white minnow in the water; but is better, in that it is more showy and infinitely tougher.
The flesh of the Minnow is extremely delicate, but the fish is so small that it would take a great number to make a dish, and consequently it is seldom used for human food.
His form is like a plummet--he is not unlike the heavily weighted minnow used in trolling for pike.
Before the bend of the firmly elastic rod, the leaded minnowslides out through the air, running true and sinking without splash into the water.
It looks very like a white minnow in the water; but is better, in that it is more showy, and infinitely tougher.
Hardy had taken a travelling rug for Helga to sit on, and Nils Nilsen towed the boat up the river, while Hardy fished with a minnow and caught a few trout.
Hardy was skilful in spinning a heavy minnow deep in the water, casting it from a boat, and thus attracting the heaviest perch.
Hardy had a sixteen-foot minnow rod, and put up a twelve-foot fly rod for the boys, and showed them how to cast it.
Whereupon Koskomenos swept away to his watchtower above the minnow pool, and the hawk set his wings toward the outlet, where a brood of young sheldrakes were taking their first lessons in the open water.
At the same moment a kingfisher went rattling by to his old perch over the minnow pool.
He had seen theminnow trailing a hundred feet astern and, with more hunger than discretion, had swooped for it promptly.
He leaves his doorway, after much watching, and shoots like a minnow across the moss to an upturned root.
While one worked, the other watched or fished at the minnow pool, so that there was steady progress as long as I observed them.
My eye was glancing along the sights when a sudden movement in the alders on the shore, above and beyond the unconscious head of Chigwooltz the frog, spared him for a little season to his lily pads and his minnow hunting.
All who have ever watched the bird have, no doubt, noticed his wonderful ability to stop short in swift flight and hold himself poised in midair for an indefinite time, while watching the movements of a minnow beneath.
There he whacked his fish soundly on the wood, threw his head back, and through the glass I saw the tail of a minnow wriggling slowly down the road that has for him no turning.
There is also good fishing, but that will profit you little; for after Keeonekh has harried a pool it is useless to cast your fly or minnow there.
I was drifting about a reedy bay (the same bay in which the almost forgotten kingfisher had cheated me out of my bear, after eating a minnow that my paddle had routed out for him) shooting frogs for my table with a pocket rifle.
They may pass up and down freely, but they never stop at the minnow pools; they are caught watching near them, they are promptly driven out by the rightful owners.
The minnow is a bold and impudent fish; he is at his ease in less than an hour, and in a week will show a sign of attachment and familiarity.
This minnow feeds on mud, or rather on the little plants which grow in mud, and his intestines are lengthened out proportionally.
In fact, every conceivable arrangement of bright colors can be found, if we go the country over, as the adornment of some minnow when he mates in the spring.
A kind of larva that a minnow could make nothing of after repeated trials was subsequently ignored.
The Mind of a Minnow To find solid ground on which to base an appreciation of the behaviour of fishes, it is necessary to experiment, and we may refer to Miss Gertrude White's interesting work on American minnows and sticklebacks.
How are we going to catch a minnow as large as a sleeping car?
Here we had discovered a lake in the Thunder Mountains which was the deepest lake in the world; and it was inhabited by a few gigantic fish of the minnow species, the existence of which, hitherto, had never even been dreamed of by science.
Why, if it resembles a minnow in size at this distance--what can be its actual dimensions?
The fish law says it is unlawful to seine, snare, or trap fish but some of the smaller streams in the county, it is said are so full of hoop and trammel nets that a minnow cannot get up or down stream.
At G-12, this minnow was abundant in the deeper isolated pools.
The bluntnose minnow was taken almost everywhere except in the main stream of the Arkansas and Walnut rivers and in lower Grouse Creek.
The mountain minnow was never taken far from the mainstream of Big Caney, Middle Caney, or Elk River.
At A-1 only one parrot minnow was taken; it was in deep, fairly quiet water near the bank.
Other records of the mountain minnow from the Flint Hills indicate that it seeks areas of maximum gradient and flow; in this distributional respect it is like Notropis camurus.
In no case was the suckermouth minnow common; it never comprised more than 1 per cent of the fish population.
Occurrences of the fathead minnow were scattered, but included all streams sampled except Big Caney.
Farther west the minnow may ascend the smaller sandy streams to greater distances.
