I read a post on another forum of a couple guys out ice fishing for Crappie and were doing poorly until one guy stuck on a stickleback and got a bite in seconds. He put another one on and got another fish right away, then put a regular crappie minnow on and nothing. Switched back to a stickleback and was back in the game in seconds. Then they ran out of sticklebacks and were lucky to get a bit every ten minutes.
I would love to give them a try, but the place I get them is out in the open and too many people drive by. They always slow down to see what I am doing. It is just below a bridge over a stream. I am afraid someone is going to call the DNR and report me for taking baitfish away from the water source which is illegal in Wisconsin.

Yes, I saw a lot of posts of people cleaning walleyes and finding sticklebacks loaded in the stomach. Also, the DNR has logged the same.
I may have to get another batch of them to take fishing for some walleyes next time I go camping.

What the heck is that thing. It looks like a cross between a Musky and a trout…lol.

And you caught it on a Stickleback?

Well, I just got back from my camping trip. And halfway there, I realized my stickelbacks were still in the garage in a bucket with the aerator running. Oh well, I stopped and picked up a dozen fatheads. I caught three walleyes with some casual shore fishing. But the stickeleback experiment will have to wait.

Hmmmm, that seems to be the prevailing sentiment but others have tried them side by side with fatheads and couldn’t buy a bite on the fatheads when they were getting plenty of fish on the sticklebacks.

If I can find some fish during my camping trip, I will give them a shot and report back.