gold fish

[stl]

I have read several post about using gold fish for bait on trotlines, limblines, ect. Sounds like it works good. Where do you get them, a pet store? I don't recall seeing them at a bait shop.

 

[JB]

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Check MO law, first, stl.<br /><br />Many states don't allow goldfish or any other exotic species as bait.<br /><br />Where do you think all those #$%^&*( carp came from?

 

[roscoe]

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europe.

 

[KCLOST]

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They are legal in Missouri...<br /><br />Just have to find a good bait store that carries them...

 

[KCLOST]

Re: gold fish

Just check the lake regulations first... Some may not allow them...

 

[stl]

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Thanks guys. Id like to try em on a trotline. I can't find a good bait for trotlines. I have had pretty good luck with chicken gizzards and hearts, but usually end up with a couple of good sized snappin turtles. I don't like getting that close to those guys.

 

[Stratosfied]

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This is something I tried once. Bought some small goldfish at Walmart and put them, at the river into a 3 liter Coke bottle that had a bunch of holes drilled in it. Had a hole poked into the lid of the bottle with fishing line coming out of it. I sank the bottle in a nice tree top and tied the line off to a limb to look as if someone got snagged. Came back a few hours later and WOW, did we start catching Crappie!! Used this trick for two more days until the fish died. I have tried this with minnows and works just as good. <br />It is illegal to introduce any non native fish into waters here in Ala. I didn't introduce them as I kept them in a bottle.

 

[KCLOST]

Re: gold fish

Thats a thought!

 

[skeeterboy]

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There is a bait store in Troy MO that used to sell them. I think the place is called Buzzys bait right off the road by McDonalds. Used them for bass years ago and did pretty well with them since they do stand out!

 

[txswinner]

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JB, Quit having sex with the bait and it won't reproduce, lol. I agree with you 100% on the damn carp. Lake Conroe fishing north of Houston was about destroyed by the "grass eating" carp.

 

[TELMANMN]

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Carp were actually brought into the country(along with many other plants, trees etc.) by those who either didn't think or figured they would make a quick buck(the american dream). A little info on the carp in America. http://www.carpanglersgroup.com/northamericancarphistory.html

 

[CATransplant]

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Razzifrazzing carp! Please don't fish with 'em in the lakes I go to.

 

[stl]

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You gotta be kidding me. A gold fish can get loose from your hook, reproduce, and grow into a big nasty carp. I knew carp were from the gold fish family, but I guess I never put two and two together

 

[TELMANMN]

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Goldfish are from the same family as carp, cyprindae, and they can live in a pond frozen over the winter for a short time. Carp are the last thing to die in a water that is being froze out. I now live on a lake(some idiot in Ohio says that 100' across body of water is a lake and Texas has the most lakes because of the man made ponds and we are only 7th) and I know for a fact they can not make it in my "Lake" over the winter. Turtles do fine and so do frogs but goldfish, minnows etc-good luck. <br /> As to something coming off the hook? Have you ever tried to get live bait across the border to Canada?

 

[stl]

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Well, as far as bait coming off the hook I knew that part. I am still doubting whether a gold fish can grow into a big old carp.

 

[KCLOST]

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I've heard that a lake in Indiana, or Illinios has been over run with goldfish... They are reproducing and taking over....<br /><br />Anyone remember this story (probably about a year old)...

 

[KCLOST]

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I've had goldfish in my garden pond and some of them are 3 years old... It will freeze over if I turn off my pump.. But I leave it running so there is a small opening left...<br /><br />And they reproduce every year....

 

[txswinner]

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Do all you boys in Kansas City grow Gold fish, got an uncle in the other KC and he grows Koi, fancy gold fish in his garden pond.

 

[txswinner]

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KC, My cousin just bought a place on Eufala and wants me to come fishing, you know anything on the lake?

 

[KCLOST]

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Smithville, or others?