Quote Originally Posted by Duayne View Post
Also, I have seen several boats that have totally filled with water because they put shad in their livewell, left the aerator on auto and the shad swam into and clogged the drain. You can get around that by having a screen installed over the upper drain.
I messed with shad for the first time this year - put them in the livewell and they didn't last any at all. Worst part was that their scales come off VERY easily. There were so many scales in the bottom of my livewell that the drain/recirculating intake screens were completely covered and it wouldn't drain. I had to keep stirring the scales up off the screen until it finally drained out. Then took a wet vac to **** them up out of the livewell. It was a dang mess and the last time I'll put them in a livewell.

A bucket with a portable aerator will probably be the next thing I try.

As for minnows and other small stuff, I just use the floating minnow bucket and keep it in the lake water, or a styrofoam one with plenty of ice.