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[big rockpile]

Usually if I have to buy Bait I have to drive at least 10 miles.Today driving Home see a Sign Live Bait.

Told my wife pull in.I go in explained not buying yet but Do you have Minnows? Yelp got Minnows and Worms.Cool be nice if you had Gold Fish? Going to have them too soon as we get the Tank set up. ALRIGHT!

Promised I'll see them plenty this Summer.Explained I hate driving 10 miles for Bait when the river is just little over a mile from the house.

big rockpile

The nearest bait shop with minnows is 20 miles away. I scored an old laundry tub from the Habitat for Humanity Re-use store. I fill it with water from my shallow well. The water has enough disolved oxygen in it and it's cold so the minnowes keep really well. Just change the water once a day.

[EDDIE BUCK]

Me to,twenty miles for minnows and crickets, and one mile for night crawlers.Fifty yards to my catalpa tree,thats the only time I like Caterpillars munching on my plants.They are welcome anytime.
If ya'll never tried them,you need to find some and go fishing.The only bait I have ever used that you could catch four of five bluegills before you have to add more bait.

[lonelytree]

Gold fish..... don't put live goldfish in waters that are not already populated with them. Ever hear of Asian Carp.

[big rockpile]

Originally Posted by lonelytree

Gold fish..... don't put live goldfish in waters that are not already populated with them. Ever hear of Asian Carp.

Have used Goldfish around here for at least 50 years and have only seen them spawn once and that was in a small Pond.

big rockpile

[alleyyooper]

When I was a kid I got tired of searching {late July and August when it was dry.}for fishing bait and could not afford to buy them.
I made a worm box from plans in a libary book. I filled it with shredded news paper and cardbord. It sat on a set of horses I made in the damp Michigan basement. When ever it rained I hot footed it out side as soon as it stopped and collected all the night crawlers I would ever need all summer. Sold tons of them thru the summer for 75 cents a dozen. I also kept red worms in that box. I still have a stryfoam box I built in the 80s to use for the crawlers I would need. Of course every spring all the stuff in that box was dumped in to a big card board box to be refilled with shredded newpaper and card board and the worms and crawlers place back in. the remains became some great garden soil for plant starting. Feed them corn meal and table scraps except no meat and bones.

For minnows I made enough off crawler sales to buy a minnow trap. Bait it with stale bread and place it in the creek the night be fore the fishing trip and collect a good amount of minnows and cray fish.

Al

[gunseller]

If there is any fish in a body of water that eat smaller fish the gold fish do not stand a chance. They have a glow in the dark sign on them that says EAT ME, and other fish do eat them fast. I work where we sell bait so all I need to do is remember to buy some when I leave work. It is akways good to have a good bait supply store close and to build a close relationship with them.
Steve

[alleyyooper]

In Michigan do get caught with gold fish in the boat while fishing . You will get to donate a healthy chunk of money to the states genral fund.

Al