Freezing minnows

[benny4117]

I have only been ice fishing a couple of years and my buddy and i have always used live minnows on his tip-ups...have not had much success and have read that alot of people prefer using dead minnow on theri tip-ups....so last time out i brought home the minoows we had left and just froze them.  I tried them on my tip-ups this weekend with no success.  Does anyone out there freeze and re-use minoows?  Or is better if they are ffreshly dead? I know people salt their own as well, which i wouldnt mind trying, but i have no idoea how to go about doing that either...any suggestion would be greatly appreciated

[hoghammer]

I know up where I am we net shiners in the summer and freeze them for the winter. We just spread the shiners out on a big piece of cardboard and salt them with sea salt or kosher salt and pack them in tubs and freeze them. They are perfect when we use them in the winter.