Bait Bucket Basics: Frugal Angler Series

By Daniel Sobieck

Here's a quick, practical guide for all anglers who want to catch their own fishing bait. This guide covers minnow trapping, leech trapping, gathering nightcrawlers, and the proper long-term storage for all your bait. Fully illustrated, this guide will explain how to target bait trapping locations and what you can expect to catch in your traps. It also includes directions for making simple and inexpensive leech traps right at home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Sobieck
• Release date: May 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393696155

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Copyright © 2020 Daniel Sobieck

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Warning

While the techniques which follow have been proven to be effective in catching fishing bait they may not work in all areas of the country (or world) nor may they be legal to use in your area. All bait trappers are responsible for knowing and following any bait trapping regulations in their area. The author is not responsible for any violations which may occur as the result of using these techniques.

Table of Contents 

FORWARD          

Chapter 1: WHAT DO FISH EAT      

Chapter 2: MINNOW TRAPPING      

Chapter 3: LEECH TRAPPING       

Chapter 4: NIGHTCRAWLERS       

Chapter 5: VARIETY BAITS       

Chapter 6: INVASIVE SPECIES       

FORWARD

You need bait for fishing. In this guide, we’ll explain how to catch bait for use in freshwater fishing. What follows are techniques used to catch minnows, leeches, nightcrawlers, frogs, salamanders, and other bait species. We catch our own bait now for the most part, not because we’re (necessarily) cheap, but because we live on a ranch in central North Dakota and the nearest bait shop is over 45 miles away.  It always feels good to have a few dozen minnows or mudpuppies (salamander nymphs) in the tank or a few dozen crawlers in the fridge ready to go fishing.  This guide is a supplement to the previously-published, Visitor’s Guide to Fishing Central North Dakota, which highlights some of our bait collecting and fishing activities in the Midwest as well as techniques used to catch fish in prairie lakes.

We have fished now for over 50 years and fished much of the United States and some of Canada in the process.  And we’ve learned that using