Keeping suckers alive

[mrklean]

I want to pick up some suckers next Thursday for the GTG what's the best way to keep them alive through the weekend and longer?

[MJ1657]

Get them in a bag with oxygen. I leave the sucker um using in the hole overnight. I have had them last close to 3 weeks in my perm house.

[PGF]

+1 oxygen bag, also at home i keep them in the big laundry sink in the basement and they last quite a while, just keep changing the water, and cover with something. (i have gone down to get one before only to find out it jumped out some time ago)

[MJ1657]

I've used a fish tank bubbler with one of those stones on the end of it. Seems to help.

[luckycrank]

buy them a new bucket ....a.k.a stadium works for the vikings

[tipup]

Best that works for me is keep them in a cool place like a garage and change water daily. If there was/is snow throw a snow chunk in a couple times a day. I have never used an air source and kept suckers for weeks. Now shiners on the other hand are hard to keep alive!!

[Archerysniper]

I use a frabill aerator and keep the in a cool place.

[bowhunt]

I use a small cooler with an aerator in the garage, and have kept a sucker a live for 2 to 3 weeks.

[Gordie]

Bathtub and a couple bags of ice then

Big cooler and change out water everyday or two.

[jasonmichalski]

two 40 gallon tubs under the basement steps and a 110v bubbler, switch them every few days and clean the dirty one, then take them out in an aerated cooler.

[Meat-Run]

Does anybody keep them in there spear hole while gone? Any tricks to keeping them out on the lake and still be able to chisel them out when frozen??

MR

[hawkeye43]

I leave them on the pin and tie the line short so its just in the water. If I have more they go in a floating fish sack and float that in the hole, can be placed in a cooler when I am there.

[ninakawawa]

put them in a metal fish trap with a chain or strong line of some sort down your hole. then just chip out the hole.