Well my mixture of flour, corn meal, garlic salt, frozen blood worms works, I guess. I use it on a regular trot line on shore and when i came back the whole line and bait was gone from where I threw it was gone the water isn't but a 1 1/2 to 2 ft deep! then I put some in a minnow trap I made and caught a 5 in fish of some sort, it is trout shaped but it has a black stripe going down both sides and its mouth resembles a sunfish. If I had a camera I would have caught picture. I know this isn't much info but do you think you could help me figure out what it is? I live in Georgia and I fish a stream the branches of the northern part of Chattahoochee. Thanks. If I catch another one I will get more description.

Probably a shiner or a Creek Chub.

Keep fishing...TIGHT LINES!

threadfin shad

VWEEKS  Probably, a shiner.  Glad to hear somebody from Georgia is fishing.  That Chatahoochee is something else.  The creeks and branches flowing into it ought to be full of fish especially during the spawning season.  Uncle Tom

Oh yeah. The recent rain brought up a river otter or a muskrat into the small stream I fish. It almost scared the living daylights out of me!

One day last year I found that a muskrat was following my spinnerbait. Been there!
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