Minnowing in Canada – What? You Didn’t Know That was a Word? Cross My Fingers – it Really is!
I really should have made this post several months ago, but well, here it is now.
Seth flew to Manitoba this past summer to minnow with his cousin, Nathan.
Nathan lives the life my son dreams of, hunting, trapping as well as doing guided hunts. Now Nathan has a new venture of minnowing which is simply catching minnows and shipping them off to be sold in stores.
You may think this doesn’t sound like much of a job but if I told you they were catching approximately 70,000 minnows a day, it might change your perspective. In much te same way that salmon do their run at a certain time of year, the minnows do, too.
Nathan in his waders.
These are the traps that the minnows swim into. They then scoop them out with the nets, pour them into the buckets and then… 
they pour them into boxes…
and then ice the minnows
The minnows are then put into plastic tubs and frozen…
…packaged and taken to the big city where they are sent to I’m not sure where.
Seth is now back in Canada for a month ice fishing and loving it. He was born in Arizona. Doesn’t he know what beautiful weather is? One thing for sure, it’s not 5°.
6 Comments
Lily
Interesting! What is it with guys eating yicky things?! My brother-in-law ate a grasshopper.
The cold weather is not so bad…It’s all in what you get used to. I love the snow and wish we had as much as our friends in Canada!
Elisabeth
That’s so funny that you want even more snow. It just shows the diversity in all of us. I like snow, too, but I don’t think I would want months of it.
Anna
*gulp* The thought of that…UGH! *shivers*
Elisabeth
Yep, pretty nasty.
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