Minnows vs. goldfish

[ChrisCarter]

Where do you live in Nebraska?

Eastern Nebraska

[cricket george]

Dakota City, Wahoo, Dodge, Scribner????

[Spawn]

I typically use them for bass or catfish for they dont really care what they hit as long as its food, however. Crappie seem to hit things they are used to.

[ChrisCarter]

Dakota City, Wahoo, Dodge, Scribner????

Omaha

[cricket george]

I have caught 14" crappie on 7" plastic worms in a 10 acre lake where the crappie have never seen a plastic worm. If Capps and Coleman use alot of rosie reds in their tournament fishing then it is good enough for me.

[kayakfisher]

I use them to catch catfish here in ohio don't think I ever caught any other kinds of fish with them tho. Goldfish stay lively longer . Was wondering why they are illegal in some states

[no1son]

The biggest fear is that allowing them for bait will spread another type of carp, one that might replace native minnows in ponds and streams, compounding the carp problem. Allowing them to be used for live bait almost certainly will spread them. Goldfish are as tolerant of low oxygen as any cold water fish there is. One of the ecologies that would be threatened are the leech ponds that freeze out most winters. The goldfish family can survive that. That is one of their differences from the true carp.

[hookum]

Here in Ohio not only do we have goldfish for bait but also Asian Carp which looks like a miniture carp about the size of a goldfish and greenish in color.

[DrNip]

Chris - Goldfish work fine for crappie, bass, cats and white bass. I have a 1/4 acre pond that I recently renovated, thanks to the neighbors poaching out my fish, and stocked 5#'s of rosie reds. They should explode in there and by fall i should have thousands. A rosie red fathead looks like a red hot burning ember on a black night in clear water. i have fished them against a regular colored minnows and hands down i had quicker hits on the rosies. One year I iced fished with them SW of Valentine, NE and stocked the sewer plant in Valentine when I left. Unfortunately they did not survive in the clarifier basin Where do you live in Nebraska?

Yep on the rosie red fathead. Old man up at Fishmarket Bait & Tackle at Wes Watkins has them and I had great success with them the other day at T-Bird. Going back to get some more tonight for tomorrows fishing trip.

[fish_4_all]

Goldfish are illegal here fished alive. Dead they are fine. Work well for trout and bullheads but haven't gotten anything else to hit them, yet.