Now, this is very interesting. I wonder, how many minnows would it hold? Being made of glass, it probably breaks easily.
As for the bass toying with the goldfish (nipping at the tail), those were short strikes that we experienced quite often. The bass were still catchable, but you have to show them something different to look at by changing to a different kind of fly or even the same fly but in a different color, as I had often mentioned in my fishing reports,