Quote Originally Posted by know1 View Post
This might be a dumb question, but where do you get the original water for the bait bucket? Does it come from the water you purchased with the shiners?
Yes. It'll be blue from the additives the bait shop uses to make them live longer. I can tell you from experience that changing out that water is an effective way to kill all the shiners The suggestion about frozen bottles of water is a good one. It's important to keep them cool, so they'll require less oxygen, but you don't want to use ice because of the chlorine in tap water. As far as keeping them alive in the bucket, the colder the water the better. Thing is, if they're in really cold water, but the water your fishing is warm, they'll die on the hook pretty quickly, so it's a trade-off.