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I put a 100 mg. aspirin and 1/2 teaspoon of plain salt with a cup of water in the minnow bucket before leaving home. Add the store's water and minnows, add ice and air asap. The aspirin and ice reliefs stress and the salt removes slime build up. Fish will slime when under stress.
Stop druging the minnows
I may have to drive a 100 plus miles for good fishing but I guess I am spoiled cause I pay less than $6.50 a pound for minnows over here. They put them in a large oxygen bag and I dont open them till we hit the water. It works great. Only drawback is they are closed on Sunday.
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same here but it you keep them in the house were its cool they will live !!!!!
Yep, I usually buy them at around 4 in the afternoon the day before I go.Quote:
Originally Posted by MEATGETTER
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Don't know about the aspirin thing, but I do know about salt. Hauled several millions shiners around the country. Salt relieves stress from overcrowding and promotes slime growth. Slime is the fishes auto immune system. When they throw their slime coat they will shed their scales very quickly and die. Had 12 tanks on the truck, each holding 90 gallons of water. Before loading I put 2 cups of mixing salt in each tank. Must be mixing salt. Iodized table salt in quantity will kill shiners. Each tank held 125# of shiners for a 48 hour trip. Fish farmers put from 50 to 100 pounds of salt in a 1000 gallon vat when they bring shiners into the shed. Then they flush them every day, sometimes twice, and add 50 pounds of salt. Best insurance a fish farmer has. Very rarely lost any fish unless I had an oxygen issue.
is the salt for the lime when you drink the tequila and the aspirin for the hangover later?Quote:
Originally Posted by canebreaker
Duh, we are saving minnows, not drinking tequila yet.
Think I'll have some blue mountains soon.