I live in North Alabama and have a nice little creek that defines a short section of my property line. The creek at my place is about 30 ft wide and averages about 3-4 ft deep with some slower deeper holes and faster, shallow areas over the rockier areas. Overall it has a slow steady current. I have lived here for about 2.5 years now and have caught small bluegill and bass using rod and reel from the creek and there are actually a pretty good number in there. I decided to try my hand at trapping live bait this past week and have had very little luck. I have a cylindrical wire mesh minnow trap with 1" holes and a small box type wire mesh crawfish trap with the 2" square opening. I managed to get 5 creek chubs in the crawfish trap but so far no crawfish or sunfish using dry dog food as bait. I'm still experimenting different locations but would appreciate any advice or bait alternatives. My goal is to keep some sort of trap baited down there most all of the time that I dont expect the creek to rise due to rain. I plan to construct an aerated minnow bait tank to house minnows and sunfish and hopefully a few crawfish to help keep it clean. I fish for most all species so I can make use of all 3 as bait. Also, if I want to trap sunfish I will likely need another more appropriate trap for them so could use a recommendation there.