Quote Originally Posted by cricket george View Post
BAITSHOP - Grasshoppa, you have learned well:D You are the first person that has really done your homework and it shows. Your customers should be happy as can be.

The Okla Dept of Wildlife has on their website a list of aquaculture growers.
CG - I don't know about the homework, but I appreciate your comments. When we started out on this venture of having a bait shop, I listened to what the fishermen were saying, their complaints, advice they might have had, and I went to a minnow farm and asked questions about maintaining minnows in good condition. This did not happen over night and I have seen some major problems pop up. As with any living thing, you have to take care of them as they depend on you for their food & proper care.

We do the same with our crickets. In our cricket cage, they can live their total life cycle. they eat, drink water, poop, mate, reproduce by laying eggs in a container we provide. I was told by a biologist that if you do not disrupt their life cycle, we would have happier and more productive crickets, and less death before their time (8 weeks).

And, we are still listening and learning as we go! I have always been one to help out whenever possible with information that we have encountered. Jim's bait will do go as they have the personalities and drive to do a good job for their customers needed to be a successful bait shop.

Good luck everyone. and maybe one day I can drop in and visit if we are over that way. Bait-I am still trying to catch that guy at the minnow farm...lol