What does everyone who uses live bait to fish from their kayak keep it in? I’d like to fish with some menhaden or live shrimp from my SOT (XT Scrambler) but am not sure how much water I need to keep 10 or 20 shrimp/bait fish alive. And I’m not sure how exactly to carry this on my boat. Suggestions?
Shrimp are easy. 2 dozen in a flowtrol bucket stay alive pretty well. You need to refresh the water pretty often if you put it in the well behind your seat. Keep it in the water beside you when sitting or drifting.
Menhaden are wimps in a bucket. about a dozen in a 5 gallon bucket 2/3 full or they die fast. change the water frequently or drift it in thewater beside you.
Remember to tie the bait bucket to your yak.
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Mud minnows will live for about 60 years in a soda can with mostly mud and shrimp do well in a bait bucket, just not together… Seriously I learned this the hard way… MM will eat the crap out of your shrimop so have a bucket for each type of bait 
I have never been able to keep menhaden alive in a yak… even in a power boat wiht a pretty good live well they die off quick… Too Busy is right… the flowtrolls are great just make sure you tie it off and don’t try to paddle draggin it… it suxverymuchbad…
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Tarpon 160os
NJ
The food chain in a bait bucket works like this
shrimp + MM = dead shrimp
shrimp + FM = dead FM
MM + FM = dead FM
Menhaden + anything = dead menhaden
fiddlers = stinky bait bucket
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Tarpon 160os
Live Menhedon are futile in small bait container. Only other problem I have is the mm w/ shrimp. Everything else works fine as long as you don’t use a nasty baitbucket, keep out of water (heat dependant) to long. Also should use aereator for fingers/ shrimp for more than 10-15min out of water.
I have been able to keep about a half-dozen menhaden in a baitbucket for an hour or so before the last one croaks. Not great, but it provides some live bait, then fresh cut bait. On a slow paddle, I have been known to let the bucket drag behind the yak as well. As nikon said, “it suxverymuchbad”, but it keeps em alive a bit longer, and I am not in a hurry to get anywhere.
John
1996 Sunbird Spirit 170 - 112 Johnson
15’ Ocean Kayak Scupper Pro
Thanks for the input. Appreciate it guys.
The other day was able to keep about a dozen medhaden alive for several hours and even had a few shrimp that I kept alive. Was using the Hobie Live well that fits on back of the Hobie kayaks. Works great for live bait and even works pretty well on finger mullet.
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