keeping minnows: dead or alive

[Lunker]

A few tips for minnows. If you jig and use minnow heads, tails or bodies, a good thing to do is keep your left over minnows frozen in a ziploc in your freezer. Also works for pike deadbait.
If you want to keep your minnows alive, instead of throwing out your left overs, if you have an old fish tank and an oxygen pump, put them in there with some LAKE water and the oxy pump. They stay alive for a log time even eithout food, , or you can throw dissolving fish food capsules or dish food in there. I did it last winter and always had a fresh supply of minnows, without going to the store.

[WarrenA]

I keep minnows all winter long in a 35 gal tank I made myself. I have found that they live the longest if you DO NOT FEED THEM & KEEP THEM COLD 34 to 36 degrees I use a submersible pump from a statue fountian to circulate the water through a filter I made myself out of 1 1/2 pvc pipe.

[brian6715]

About three weeks ago I bought a rubbermaid tub (about 10 gallons i think?) and a pump (10 bucks) and a long "bubbler tube" (like 4 bucks). I built a wood table thingy and set the entire unit up on it. Took about a half hour. I have had two scoops of Fatheads in it for 3 weeks (waiting for ice) and not one has died. I keep er in the garage so it does stay cool, because its key to keep them cool for them to live. I haven't fed them yet and wondering if i should? Anyways, thats just my 2 cents.
Brian

[Deitz Dittrich]

I had a couple of sunfish in a aquarium in my family room.. and they were finally gettin lare enough that I thought they might try and take a minnow.. So I kept the smallest crappie minnow from a fishing trip and dropped him in the tank...Well, he just died about a month ago...lived for about 11 months.. was twice as big as the sunfsih were too.. LMAO

[HardH2O]

The biggest advantage of having the minnows is they are there, on hand, ready to go in a moments notice. Don't have to go to the bait shop to get them. That is, if the bait shop is open when you want to go!
David