Well I decided to stick with the trap but used dog food as bait. Managed to catch almost all of the babies this way. Used a net to catch around 10 more.
Gonna check the trap soon to see if I managed to get any more through the night.
between using a net and minnow trap I caught about 90% of the babies. The ones remaining got smart and are now sticking to the deeper end of my pond which is around 5 foot deep. Might not get them until they grow bigger.
At one point I was scooping some crud out of the big pond with a cup and tossing it into the grass when I saw flying through the air a small baby koi...Not sure how I managed to catch him in the cup as I was not even trying to catch him. Took me 10 seconds to find him laying in the grass, picked him up and brought him to a bucket. He was still for about a minute or so then started racing around. Once I knew he was ok I then placed him in the new pond.....woooo I thought he was a goner for a second.