How to Catch your own Bait (Redtails, Creek Chubs, River shiners)

Sometimes I think I like catching bait just as much as catching the sport fish. Nice work! 👍

I catch the same species where I live in Canada. I use rod and typical metal trap with bread and worms. Through lots of trial and error keeping them alive for long periods of time... I've found that keeping them in the same river water in buckets with aerator ( separate the large chubs from shiners if possible) . Once original water is clouded/dirtied up from the minnow purging or puking up stomach contents... you can change water with fresh distilled jugs from any grocery store while matching temp as best you can by feel. Real spring or well water seems fine as long as there's no added chemicals. They usually puke up everything within an hour or 2. So have everything ready at home depending on the size of bucket . I've been able to keep them alive for long periods of time. Hope this helps anyone from losing bait. Keep em cool with sealed frozen water bottles if need. Can be refrozen over again.

Along with the chubs/shiners, there are sometimes some really great fish in this size creek. I used to fish a little creek like this as a kid and caught northern, smallies, walleyes, etc- especially in the spring. With suckers/chubs $6 a dozen, spending half an hour catching bait like this isn't a bad idea.

Dudeee I totally thought you were creek fishing adventures at first glance. Just watched a video of his n he was wearing a red shirt too 😂

My pb creak chub was 12.75 in and cought a 41 in pike with it.😁🎣🎣🎣

When I was younger I used to catch Creek Chub and Shiners all the time. I've caught Creek Chubs between 10" -12" in the Creeks around Northeast Iowa. I still catch them today using the same method you are. It's a lot of fun. Wait til that day you are bait fishing and tie into a nice Smallie. We have Smallmouth in a lot of little creeks here in Northeast and North Iowa. You should have kept the River Shiners and froze them for Northern fishing this winter on tip ups.

Very cool vid bud!! I’ve always wanted to do that!

This is awesome! Thinking outside the box I love it, keep up the vids they are fantastic man!

I think you need to use a cane pole the next time you go fishing for bait. 😀 God Bless

here in the east we have minnow species called a fallfish. they're basically chubs that get up to 3-4 lbs. so that huge chub you caught would be a tiny fallfish. they make great bait

when i catch a bluegill or other sunfish under four inches I call it a Bait Volunteer. Have not caught anything on a volunteer yet but it has been a hot dry summer and water levels are very low, most of the river fish have been taken out by birds, nowhere to hide. or larger fish went to the depths I can't reach without a boat. Better days coming, says rain I heard last night.

Nice! I used to catch bait this way until I started using a cast net. Much more effective.

I do this all the time. Better bait and it's free.

Tank of redtails in winter time is good as gold here in NW Wisconsin!

Hahahaha. As a child, and were a lot of us kids, we each had a stick with a piece of line tied on it, a piece of dry wood as a bobber and we had to find our own bait. We dug fishing worms I old cow manure around the barn or chicken manure, caught crickets, grasshoppers for general fishing or turned over stumps and rotting logs and chased down field mice specifically to catch really big large mouth bass in the pond. Good times.

Another good video ceep it up.

Awesome job!

Damn you were nailing them.

Could you include how you rig/ fish these slippery little chubs please! Thanks. Love the videos.

I like to use butter worms. Thread them on the hook through the tip of the tail and pop the tip of the hook out through the hard head. I usually catch many baits before having to Rebait.