Just for clarification, for those of you who've used them in the past, are you just referring to minnows that you yourself have frozen or are the store bought shiners just as good? We're heading up today and I was thinking about buying a few bags of Magic Emerald Shiners in case the eyes aren't biting or we get an early limit and want to switch over to the perch, but I don't want to buy live shiners if we're not going to use them and it'd be even less cost efficient to run back to the dock to buy them.

Has anyone used the store bought preserved minnows with any success in the past? And can anyone confirm that there really are around 70 minnows in the 4 oz. package that only costs $2.99?