| Plastic 55 gallon drum, and a five gallon bucket. A sugar barrel from the
local soda pop bottling company is perfect. Seriously. I used to truck fish all the time, and we would catch threadfin
shad for bait. 5 or 6 dozen would be pushing it, but shiners are more hardy
than shad. Anyway. I would throw the barrel in the back of my truck. About 12 inches
from the top I cut a 2" hole with a hole saw for an over flow, and screwed a
piece of screen to it. I dropped the five gallon bucket inside the barrel. The shad seemed to not
beat themselves up so much on the sides of the barrel with the bucket for
cover. Everytime we stopped the truck we would throw five gallons of fresh water in
the bucket, and then a handful of ice from the icechest. We could keep shad
alive most of the day that way. Shad are pretty fragile fish so we wouldn't try to carry more than 2 or 3
dozen. We would always go catch more if we ran out. I learned this basic trick from some guys at the bait dock out of Long Beach
Ca. when we went saltwater fishing once with live anchovies. I recall I
spent most of the day laying on the back deck of the boat clutching my rod
across my chest feeling ill and occasionally pukeing over the side. LOL. I
did catch more fish than anybody, and we had good live anchovies most of the
day. Bob La Londe
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