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Originally Posted by chriscosta
Not arguing just telling my experiences and I use minnows in winter and minnow Flys almost exclusively in summer for trout and it catches all big and small ...hermitage pond I have had many times the small stocked trout so full of sticklebacks they were spitting them out on shore still alive and like 2 or 3 at a time ...when a trout eats minnows they grow faster..and I remember the sticklebacks at Hasselbeck very well same deal the trout were getting big because the unlimited sticklebacks to eat...but once the perch exploded there the sticklebacks disapeaked they actually take very little oxogyn at all levels to survive and that's why they flourish in sloughs and what not and never winterkill
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I've seen them in ditches along the hiway, people's freshly dug dugouts, even mud puddles. Very hardy little beasts.