Bait shops are a risky place to buy minnows. Sometimes they have held those minnows for weeks in tanks with less than optimal conditions. I bought minnows from Shelby last year with very good success hauling them for 1.5 hours; few if any morts. Ask him how long he has held them and how the mortality rate has been since he got them. I find him to be a honest fish farm manager.


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