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Alabamaguy

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05/10/2011 08:30AM

Call me a bit ignorant but I have noticed a lot of people saying to fish with "fatheads" for walleyes this spring. Could someone explain to me what "fatheads" are? Are these salted/dried minnows or live ones? Thanks for the help

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fishinbum67

05/10/2011 08:39AM

They are a type of minnow live and sold cheaper than shiners and bigger than crappie minnows but are smaller than shiners

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JEFF2053

05/10/2011 09:17AM

How do you carry minnows we don't base camp we move pretty much everyday I was going to take leeches but if someone has a good way to take minnows I would be interested in hearing it
Thanks
Jeff

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aholmgren

05/10/2011 11:19AM

quote JEFF2053: "How do you carry minnows we don't base camp we move pretty much everyday I was going to take leeches but if someone has a good way to take minnows I would be interested in hearing it
Thanks
Jeff"

Jeff, not that carrying ice is any easier than minnows or a good option for the BW, but when I fish Rainy Lake in Ontario, we often put minnows on sawdust and keep on ice, when jigging them, to get around the live bait rules and regs. Probably no help for BWCA....

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snakecharmer

05/10/2011 12:40PM

quote fishinbum67: "They are a type of minnow live and sold cheaper than shiners and bigger than crappie minnows but are smaller than shiners"

Yup. Crappie minnows are just small fatheads.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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thebotanyguy

05/10/2011 01:36PM

Maybe more than you wanted to know about Fatheads:

The Fathead Minnow Webpage

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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