FishinGuy
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golden shiners
Was talking to a guy at mammoth lake last week who said he caught a few golden shiners on corn while trout fishing. Anybody else ever see these in that lake or Anywhere else local for that matter? Would love to catch some for bait just lookin for some tips. You can't use. A minnow trap in this lake as it is trout stocked. And I'm assuming a trap w a one inch opening is too small anyway.
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RE: golden shiners
2011/03/28 12:47:19
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I saw a lot of golden shiners in there around 20-25 years ago. They were around 5-7" long. There were a lot of big bass in there then too.
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RE: golden shiners
2011/03/28 12:59:05
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hey fishin guy...the shiners you can buy in a bait store are almost always golden shiners..they just dont get the golden color until they hit about 5 inches
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RE: golden shiners
2011/03/28 13:14:23
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Used to catch them 30 years ago fishing for bluegill at Kooser. They were in that 5"-7" range. Don't know if they're still there or not.
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RE: golden shiners
2011/03/28 16:16:51
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Glade Run Lake is full of them.
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RE: golden shiners
2011/03/28 17:29:36
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THEY ARE STILL IN kOOSER & Mammoth & most other lakes around this area. Have caught them in Northmoreland,Acme Dam etc. they fight pretty well for thier size when we catch them on jigs. sam
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FishinGuy
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RE: golden shiners
2011/03/29 15:31:46
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Thanks alot guys I'm looking for the biggest ones I can find to keep in my bait tank til catfish season found a link online that said small bread balls will catch em good any other good baits for shiners?
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catfishkid81
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RE: golden shiners
2011/03/29 17:29:24
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just a wax worm a small hook works well to catch them wax worms are soft and somehow stay attached to the hook well and the shiners bite down and thats it for them.Also try little creeks in your area i always find alot of them in the creeks that run out of keystone
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RE: golden shiners
2011/04/01 21:40:00
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Once trout season opens and you can get near the outlow at donegal you can catch them there or at the pipe right down from the dam aswell. But, those things are everywhere... Even out in Somerset lake, caught about 6 or 7 of them last year in about a one hour period...
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RE: golden shiners
2011/04/02 06:56:36
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last summer at pymatuning, we were catching 6" to 8" shiners on maggots. they were like paranha's. but if you didn't take care unhooking them, they we toast.
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RE: golden shiners
2011/04/02 09:09:01
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I love those giant wild goldies,great big bass bait and great pike bait. One of the lakes I ice fish has some big 6-8 plus inches,every time we get one jigging through the ice we put it out on a tip-up and they almost always get bit.I'll freeze them and use as deed bait for pike if they don't get eaten that day.I was thinking about putting in a back yard pond just to raise some over size wild goldies,the ones at the bait store are quite small and pale in color as too the wild ones.
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RE: golden shiners
2011/04/02 12:55:09
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I believe that you can use a minnow trap once Trout season opens. I would think that you would need an aereator to transport any number of them, because they seem fragile to me. I was told by a Fish Commisioner that one of the reasons that they made Mammoth a big bass lake was because of the numbers of large Golden Shiners in there, for food for the bass. sam ORIGINAL: FishinGuy
Was talking to a guy at mammoth lake last week who said he caught a few golden shiners on corn while trout fishing. Anybody else ever see these in that lake or Anywhere else local for that matter? Would love to catch some for bait just lookin for some tips. You can't use. A minnow trap in this lake as it is trout stocked. And I'm assuming a trap w a one inch opening is too small anyway.
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