Dave B. Bob as good advice above. Call Davis fish farm, you have their number from the bluegill I lined up. They are ahuling about 20 loads for me some wil be on truck with 2nd stop for 10 hrs. So 3.5 hrs is no biggie.
Also in the past when we had more time we caught them up out of reservoir. It is not difficult and you do not need to get a hauling truck just a pickup with good 10 gallon or so round tank from farm suppply , not a bad investment for what you do. A round tank I think is ciritical for hauling because they need to swim and if they go to corner in square tank they bangup their nose pretty bad.
We caught with cast net and dumped quickly in tub in boat. If they are up spawning usually we can find close to baot ramp After a few good cast run thme back to truck. In a few trips if conditions are right you can get several 1,000's. You can haul 3,000 2-3 inch shad in 100 gals. with some oxygen if not going tooo far to lake. Good luck!
