There's several different styles Spirit, basically add bread or dog food, put them in the water, and wait. Minnows swim in to eat, and can't figure how to get out. Or use a seine net to catch them in streams.
So it's a trap for minnows? Not a trap you put minnows in to trap bigger fish?
Right, it's for catching minnows so you don't have to buy them. Also many places don't allow use of non native baitfish, invasive species and such. Plus you are using the same familiar food that the fish are used to eating.
It’s a paraglider he was pretty low thanks for the post the minnows r from a creek that is a feeder to the lake. It is a trap to catch minnows. I release what I don’t use back where I catch them at.