Quote Originally Posted by waterdog101 View Post
I do crappie fish some, I have a small bait bucket for crappie minnows, but the bait I need the bait tank for is shad, for striper fishing, I like to fish lake Cherokee in tn. and it's a 2 hour drive for me. I have to leave really early to get there before daylight. so I can catch shad. if I had a good bait tank, I can catch my bait here on Laurel and take them with me. would be much easier.
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That's pretty much the same reasons I started keeping crappie minnows, live bait is a pain in the tail to get and keep alive, bass fishing with artificials was so much simpler... I never did have a spinner bait go belly up on me.