Coonass baitwell
 

For those of you like me who have to use an ice chest for an baitwell, what size are y'all using. I have an ice that is app. 5gal but my bait seems to die quick. I do use an areator to keep them alive and still no luck. Im mainly talking about shrimp.

Not sure about your problem ..but maybe they getting beat to death..I believe the amount of water has something to do with it

There's a tread from last year (I think) on live/bait wells.....don't think I can search from phone.....have pictures of one I made from a water cooler & is the ticket! I'll see if I can find it

Shrimp or bait needs to be in a round or oval well.

I'll dig this eve on computer when I get home for ya.

It may be the water temp. (To hot) Find out what temp they live in. I was told put ice in a zip lock bag. To cool the water.

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I bought a frabil bucket and bubbled from academy for $35. Used it on my kayak two weeks ago. I just about died from the heat, but the shrimp were still alive when I got back to the dock.

I was gonna say that. I made one out of a 48qt marine ice chest that works awesome.

Try one of these...
http://www.petco.com/product/9799/Ga...tackables.aspx

Lay the back down to where the lid is on top. Seen a lot of guys use these for their kayaks. They mount rod holders on the back or sides and they're set. Mostly seen it used with water pump to pump fresh water in and old water out like they do on a baot. Not sure if you want one for a kayak, just thought i'd throw that in.

The ice is a good idea to keep the water cool, so is a round container for shrimp. What I do is weigh down a sponge to the bottom. Gives the shrimp something to grab a hold to so they are not banged around as much.

Man go buy a 5 gallon bucket from academy and the 16 dollar foam baitwell with the aireator and cut down bucket to size squirt silicone all in the bottom of the bucket slide the foam bait well in there and let it dry. freeze you one of those tiny gatorade bottles full of water and put it in the foam baitwell when you leave your house i have held 1.5 quarts of shrimp in mine and had like 3 die all day in the heat ill post some pics of what im talking about easy easy

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Oh yeh I bought the flat weighted air stone also like 2.99 or something and I keep some spare batteries in my dry box

Nice. Like the setup.

dude thats pimp...

I'll trade you 2 SaltyCajun.com towels for one of those. :eek: No Really!:)

I'll make you one man, who ever wants one just PM me I'll add up the costs in a little while and that's what I'll charge ya to do it, but it's very easy to do

Here's what I use..... My Skeeter bay had a 40 gal bait well, didn't work near as good as this plus it's insulated & has handles to strap down with bungee cords, freeze water bottles & put 10 or so in icechest & keep a couple in baitwell, swap out every couple hours. Never a problem, cool water, good aerator & round baitwell is the keys to keep em alive
Aerator goes in through the top, drill the right size hole & it comes with a rubber grommet to seal off
& get the pull lid type....not the screw on!

Fish piss in the water and make it saturate with amonia.
There are several brands of stuff that neutralize the amonia.
Rejuvenade is one. They are one of the sponsors on the HT Redfish tourny.

That sounds pretty easy. If you can post some pics of it.

sounds like one of our problems is bouncing around in the 15x48 C.A.B.B." Coon *** Bass Boat" in 2-3ft waves along with a square ice chest.:D

Yeh gotta keep the water cool. I just throw some ice in there out the icechest every few hours.

You couldn't have pointed to the pic higher up in the thread? I think he ment other pics of the construction project while it was being made.

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Sorry no pics of the build, I'll take some when I build another one.
Just took a jig saw and went around the bottom ring of the sides with the handle, left 2 tabs to keep the handle and trimmed the top ring on the handle part and it fits in my back hatch perfectly :)

Plastics
 

Fish with plastics. I've had some in my boat since last year and they still caught plenty of trout last Sunday in Lake Charles. :D

Funny Hahaha! ;)

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I'm sorry my crazy phone didn't show the pictures until the last one you posted then all showed up. Sorry. Lol

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kept 2 dozen cacahoes alive and well from 0630 to 1900 when we got back in baton rouge. a fish tank...

That's the ticket!!
It works for me.
Also may want to get some of those Shrimp Saver tablets from Academy. Cost about $3.50. They seem to help too. I use 5 gal. bucket w/ an aerator and lid. Does well for me.

cocahoes never die anyway!!

that may be true but we had a "bait well" (5 gal bucket with the aerator) and they were dead in 10 minutes and the lake was slick so they didn't get beat to death. at least it worked.

That's the ticket right there! My set up is real similar to yours and it works awesome. Only thing is, I made a kind of like skirting that fits inside the bucket which gives the shrimp something to cling to, so they don't get wore out sloshing around in the bucket. Also, I take the little frozen water bottles out when I'm running because I've found it to beat em' to death like a wrecking ball if I'm running in rough water. How do you like your Mr. Bubbles? I went thru 2 or 3 of them before I got a Frabill and have been much happier with it. Good set up Shaw, I like it:)

Its been good so far, just keep replacing the batteries. Yeh I forgot to mention that take the water bottle out while running, they be all squashed

what are you siliconeing in the bottom? Do you have a pic of inside

I siliconed the stirefoam bait well inside the bucket so if water sloshes or spills over your inner liner dosent float up, I don't have pics but I'll build another one and take pics of the build when I get in from offshore

ok, I got what you did now

Yessir!

You have to make it as simple as possible. All his books has pictures in it.

Lol

atleast I stoped colorin and eatin the pages:spineyes:

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