Live well tip

[plugger]

I don't use live bait but I may when I take our daughter because she complained that we don't catch anything . HA ! So I had KROLL'S MARINE install a screen over the outflow of my livewell because shrimp would flush out there . Charlie at KROLLS said an old salt gave him this tip . Use an epoxy to glue two long strips of Velcro parrallel to each other on the bottoom of the livewell .Place a towel on the Velcro . It gives the shrimp something to hang onto as you motor and keeps them from smashing around the livewell walls and each other . It'll keep them in better condition and frisky . Remove the towel and wash it afterwards . Maybe you knew this but I didn't . Good tip I thought .

[Curmudgeon]

Live well tip

Nice tip!

[mgstei1]

I always have thrown a wash clothe in with a bucket of shrimp and also a small frozen plastic baby bottle or now days a small Ozarka bottle of water taken from the ice box freezer. I remember our boyhood old neighbor hanging a towsack full of cotton seed cakes off a pier and coming back and picking shrimp off the sack that their horns got hung up in the burlap. He also threw a cotton seine net our way and we hit the shallows for bait and shrimp. He had a hand made cast net that he prized but I never saw him throw the net. I'm still a live bait fan and always will be. Mud minnows, piggies, yellowtails, croakers and crabs, live shrimp still my favorites as something will always be caught. Flounder and Trout and the bigger croakers are my tablefare choice. A 20"-27" Redfish is not the best eating compared to the others. Fun to hook but always will be tossed back.

[SUPER SPOOK]

keeping them cool in summer helps

[plugger]

Yeah Charlie said to throw ice in there periodically , but I figured most knew that . I like the frozen bottled water idea or a blue ice . Neat story about the old timer and burlap sack / net .

[Moe]

If you do not have a live well or fishing from the rocks, you can put a replacement net for landing nets in a 5 gallon bucket. Just let the top of the net hang over the top and the bucket top will keep it secure. The shrimp cling to the net and stay frisky.Just make sure you have a hole in your bucket top to keep from having to take the top off and a place to put the aerator hose.

Moe

[KennyWayne]

Another method that I read about, for keeping shrimp alive, and thought was intriguing was using dry sawdust. I have never heard about it so when I read an article, I tried it as an experiment. I found out that it really works, and could be handier on a pier than hauling batteries, tank & areators. (Google- sawdust shrimp for the technique) My wife doesn't like reaching in a bait bucket, but she had no problem handling a zombie shrimp, so it helped me to keep fishing rather than baiting her hook.

[Gilbert]

I use a burlap sack in an insulated bucket. The sawdust shrimp is all they would use down south in brownsville. Crazy how that works.