Bait Tub on the Octi?

Sometimes you catch several ly on a ribbon rig or sabiki at one time and it's easy enough to drop the xtras in the tank. I would want to use a fresh ly every time but would grab one from the tank if there were a chew down in progress. I loan out my sabiki and ribbon about as often as I do my net and don't mind because I have used other people's nets as well. i have left them in the condo before and donated at least a couple to the pilings and didn't have a spare. I couldn't care less who borrows mine as along as you put it back where and how you found it. The tank is a great idea but there will always be freeloaders. Mitt Romney's true statement that "47% of the people in America pay no taxes" (for various reasons) made a lot of people angry, yet it is still true. I figure a lot of times there will be enough youngsters filling the bait tank to supply a lot of extra bait. There will be a few who catch 3 ly and throw the other 2 back because they don't like the tank. Hopefully if the inbreeds urinate in it at night the pump will flush it out by morning.

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Originally Posted by craigt

Why would someone waste their time catching or buying bait when they can just partake of the "community" tank? I am also afraid that John G may be right about the garbage pit aspect; having seen the pier on "mornings after."

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It will be nice to have a fresh water supply for bait buckets and a quick place to dip your hands into instead of dealing with a water hose.

I think the tank will be fine in the daytime, but I'm prophesying that it winds up with a padlock on it for the nights, either that or gone.

Edit: maybe they could point that video cam at it. That way we could get rid of some troublemakers.

All the above was covered in a previous post and I agree, it probably won't work. But the idea came from Brent, an employee and I applaud any idea the staff comes up with to try and help the fishermen!

I hope it works too. Can't hurt anything to try it because I am sure it will be taken care of if it becomes a problem.

I hope it works, too, and I expect it won't have much, if any effect on my bait situation. The trouble is that it only takes one or two miscreants to spoil it for everybody. ---And from past experience, the pier people won't do anything to the troublemakers, even if they catch them.

Whoever poo-pooed the idea of the rectangular or square box wasn't using their 'noodle'.
Such a box (evan an icechest) can easily have the 'corners' eliminated by adding a strip of stiff 1/4" to 3/8" mesh material strung around the inside walls, attached to the midpoints...
http://www.gulfshorespierfishing.com...tid=5945&stc=1

https://www.usnetting.com/plastic-netting/rolls/

I hope it's ready and flowing come May..I've got 2 new bait bags ready to fill and hang for ready access. I hope to leave the bait bucket and aerator back at the house and save room on the cart.