Trout trout another trout.
Using an electrode device attached to a pole, Schmidt pokes under banks, between sunken logs, and around other likely fish-holding spots. He slides the pole into a backwater eddy, and a half-dozen of what look to be minnows pop to the surface. Schmidt shouts excitedly over the motor's roar. Schmidt is big on dace. And on darters, and shiners, and madtoms, and other nongame native fish species that inhabit Minnesota waters.