Ice Fishing Skills: Removing Minnows From a Bait Bucket

Video Transcript

"Let's talk now about a necessity while you're ice fishing and using minnows or shiners for bait on your tip ups, and that's actually getting them out of the bait bucket. These bait buckets, you fill them about half full, three quarters with water. The minnows go in them. They have a pop top. And there's a number of different ways to get the minnows out. You could use the scoop if you have your minnows in a five gallon bucket, say, but for this, my scoop's just too big to get in there. What I have is simply a small plastic scoop. It's designed to get minnows out of bait buckets. They also make ones that are made of more of a mesh netting material. I found that those are not good to use because they freeze up very easily. They'll freeze to the sides of your bait bucket, to the top, and then when you try to remove them, all that ends up happening is your netting rips and you have to buy another one. These plastic scoops are only a couple bucks. Very good. If they ice up, you can simply gently tap them. See if I can get a minnow in here. (Scoops a minnow). Very, very easy way to get a minnow out of the bucket."