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07-17-2017, 10:50 AM #1Wakina
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07-13-2017, 10:11 AM #2
Go to Wal-Mart pharmacy dept. and get a bottle or 2 of the 91% isopropyl alcohol. When you find shiners buy extra and cure them right away with the alcohol. I have the bait store put them into gallon plastic bags with no water. I then put them into a colander and drain them of as much water as possible put them back into the gallon bags and cover with the alcohol and squeeze out most of the air. They will start to cure almost immediately in the alcohol. Just Ice them down for the day and put into freezer when you get home. they will not freeze but they stay nice and cold and firm. This method works with the golden shiners also. It is a lot cleaner and less messy than the salt routine, I think it does a better job also. I use old peanut butter jars to store them in while in the freezer for less chance of alcohol leaks.
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Wakina
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07-15-2017, 07:04 AM #3Senior Member
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07-13-2017, 10:19 AM #4
Do you drain the 91% off, or freeze them in it. Thanks
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07-13-2017, 12:32 PM #5Wakina
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07-13-2017, 07:52 PM #6
Good to hear from you Mr. W. How's your back? I'm in a similar situation so I hit the Head Boat out of Sandusky. They tend to Perch sometimes more than Eye's. Call first to see what they're up to. And thanks for the advice on freezing in alcohol rather than salt!
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07-15-2017, 02:08 AM #7
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07-17-2017, 11:32 AM #8
With all the high costs involved with just getting to the boat and then the spot where I am going to put out the anchor I never thought the cost of bait was overpriced. Those bait dealers are the ones who have to have their bait delivered $$$$$ to the store in order to have them there for sale in the first place. There are only a couple that actually net the minnows(shiners) they sell and when those are not available they have to have golden shiners trucked $$$$$ in from afar.
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07-16-2017, 01:45 AM #9
I dock out of east harbor.
Last week I went to a bait shop I won't name, and he wanted 5 bucks for a single scoop of golden minnows. Probably 2 dozen or so.
Minnows have been tearing up the harbor.
I put out a 4 foot seine with some homemade dough ball in it and caught a few hundred minnows, mostly emerald shiners, in the marina in about 20 minutes.
Now, I don't think that perch, when they are hungry, really care what species of minnow it is. But I will say that at those prices, if I can net my own... well the seine I had, but it would pay for itself if you had to buy one within 1-2 fishing trips, if there are minnows around. And if there aren't? Put a lantern over the side right near the water, just after dark, toss in some bread crumbs, and there WILL be.
If there aren't? Go find yourself some of the really small Mr. Twisters, with a really small hook threaded through them, and some tiny spoons. Put one on each end of a spreader, with a redworm or a small cut of night crawler to get a little scent in the water. Or a minnow sized piece of cut bait, if you want to buck the law.
I've gotten more perch on small spoons or rubber baits than I care to recount. Then there was the day I got my first 10 pound walleye on a boiling July afternoon, when I had put a small Mr. Twister on a zebco with 6 pound line, jigging, back in 97... trying for perch, which were hitting our walleye lures. I figured, let's target the perch, since they are biting. Plus that lure gives a good chance of hooking into a smallmouth.
If I do get a bunch of minnows, I usually cure the leftovers myself. Some salt and a little time in the sun. Not as productive as fresh bait, I grant you, but they do just fine. Keep them in the freeezer after they are dry. The leathery nature of curing and drying will keep them on the hook quite well.Last edited by jonk; 07-16-2017 at 01:52 AM.
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07-13-2017, 10:42 AM #10
My wife would kill me if she stumbled in to minnows in the freezer 😂
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