Lost all my bait!!!

[tcfish]

         So i go bye the pond today to keep the cover to my bait box open and chip it out and ALL MY SHINERS ARE DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                probably had 20-30 dozen 


        What a bummer!!   gonna have to start all over again and i know it's harder to trap them now               
 
               Never had this issue anybody got any input???

[Bowdoin Boy]

Frost Bite?

[Polarised]

The bait was in a pond I take it?
Lack of oxygen, or too cold maybe?
Fish tend to seek out comfortable water layers
to live, the conditions may have been to severe
where you had them, and caused their demise.

[fishingsurveyor]

Snow Snakes?

[allextremesfishing]

Snow Snakes?

 

now back to the topic.. i agree with Polarised! prob got to cold for them or the oxygen level went down quick.

[grouper]

Snow Snake .......strikes again

[Dags Bait Maine]

it wouldn't be the temperature, because all the waters are about 34 degrees in the winter. if its a small pond, i to suspect oxygen deprivation.

-Dylan

[fiddlehead322]

         So i go bye the pond today to keep the cover to my bait box open and chip it out and ALL MY SHINERS ARE DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                probably had 20-30 dozen 


        What a bummer!!   gonna have to start all over again and i know it's harder to trap them now               
 
               Never had this issue anybody got any input???

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Not sure what it could be, but I got about 100 or so in my tank in garage if you need some.

[Bigmac]

If there is current that could do it. If there is no current, I suspect a lack of dissolved oxygen.

[tcfish]

       No current , maybe to many in one area and lack of oxygen for that many shiners? 

[lostfishy]

dead snow snake leaked venom into the water

[APJ]

 >:(I guarantee not enough oxygen.

[tcfish]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Not sure what it could be, but I got about 100 or so in my tank in garage if you need some.

          Thanks for the offer Rich !! good for right now

[kevinmaine3]

I dont have alot of bait, but what i do...with 2 or 3 doz..i take a regular run of the mill trap, close up the two ends, and toss it in a brook out back, havent had a problem at all, since I mostly jig with artificials, i went 3 weeks with out checking em, and they were all alive...think the current helps..