Chumming the lake

[Jake Caillier]

Im not sure if it is just a superstition of mine but, does throwing your minnows down your ice hole after you are done fishing, affect the fish for the next time you head out. Assuming you are in a permenant house, and returning to the same place? Any thoughts or answers?

[eyeguy 54]

• You cannot dispose of unwanted minnows and leeches in Minnesota waters. Unused bait, including night crawlers, should be put in the garbage. See pages 24-26.

[Wanderer]

30 minutes ago, Jake Caillier said:

Im not sure if it is just a superstition of mine but, does throwing your minnows down your ice hole after you are done fishing, affect the fish for the next time you head out. Assuming you are in a permenant house, and returning to the same place? Any thoughts or answers?

 

Even when it WAS legal - No would be my answer.

[delcecchi]

It is a bad idea.  It can spread disease and invasive species.   Don't do it.  

 

Besides, the minnows swim away and within a short time are dispersed so the fish wouldn't see them as a big attraction.  

[Jplante]

[Jim Panfish Uran]

Sometimes reading into the regs before posting in an open forum that the CO's can read is the best idea.

[eyeguy 54]

25 minutes ago, Jim Uran said:

Sometimes reading into the regs before posting in an open forum that the CO's can read is the best idea.

 

i was gonna say that but I am so kind to newbies. LOL  

[DrJuice1980]

So as long I throw one dead one over at a time, Im cool?

[Jim Panfish Uran]

You might be able to get away with one and half minnows at a time, but no more.... lol

[DrJuice1980]

I like to sacrifice larger shiners just for their scales.  Ill take my thumb nail and work em off in the hole and a big cloud of scales slowly make their way down.  Ive never been a fan of a pile of dead minnows under my hole.

[Jim Panfish Uran]

I've seen people do it on LOW and claim that a minnow head here and there seemed to keep the fish around. 

[icepike 1]

I've seen a video of a walleye bypassing a lively minnow and taking the Dead one on the bottom that was still hooked. I'll have to try this out some time. 

[Cliff Wagenbach]

Dead shiners are better bait on the Rainy River in the spring then live ones are!

Cliff

[Jake Caillier]

Thanks for all the replies guys. Great advice! just as a heads up i don't chum, but it was just a topic i was obviously clueless about. Thanks again guys!

[chris420]

i had half a dozen big suckers and 4 big decoys dead, i dropped them down the hole,started fishing with 2 rods in the portable and got 5 northerns and missed 4 within 2.5hours, northerns were 4-6.5lbs. missed a couple big ones on a decoy, i recently changed my gear so i dont set the hook and rip the minnow out of the fishes mouth, some big fish tho the bent the hell out of my extra heavy 34"rod