minnows by the pound?

[sac-a-lait]

Oh if you can buy straight from the farm "you can buy the farm"...I would figure the middle man who delivers them to the biatshops has to mark them up 100% as well. So I bet he gets them for 2 cents and sells them to the bait shops, by the pound per 1,000. For example, a #6 at retail is approx 13 cents of which the baitshop paid approx 5 cents of which the bait deliver truck probably paid 3-2 cents. Now the fellers selling them so cheap MIGHT be catching them themselves in a seine net or something like that then the cost is ZERO and you can sell them SUPER CHEAP!

[danogoldcreek]

i sell minnows,med #6 1.00 a dozen,smalls 3 dz for 2.50.yes a lb of med is around 12 -14 dz and is right at $10.00.i make just a few $ a lb.much rather sell them by the dz.a place at greers ferry gets $2.99 a dz!and oh yea i get them delivered off a truck

[blairarnold]

I think part of the problem on the high prices in Batesville and Drasco are lack of competition.

[Backwater Man]

Here at Millwood I can buy a 1/4 lb. for about $3.75---myself I use a larger minnow about 1-2 inches in size, a little smaller than a bass minnow. You can also buy a smaller size about 1 1/4 in length and get 3-4 dozen in a 1/4 lb.
Like the man said---What size do you want--its cheaper to buy by weight. The guys I buy from do not even count the millows, they just dip up some and ask me is that enough, if I say know, than he adds some more and charge me by the weight. Of course I know these guys and buy from them all of the time. I find that bigger minnows keep the smaller crappie off your line.

[blairarnold]

I've always liked a little bigger minnow, too.

[gabowman]

I'm buying approx. 20 doz. small minnows for $12. Stores at home are selling for $1.70 a doz. = $34 for the 20 doz. I'm buying my personal minnows so I dont move 'em like bait shops either. Theyre buying 'em cheaper than I can. Their mark up is close to 200% (less what dies).

[slabbandit]

We buy all ours by the pound from Anderson's Minnow Farm in Lonoke, Ar. They have a 6# minimum order. Seems like they are about 30 bucks for 6 lbs. I never knew how the grading system worked until I read Sac-a-Lait's post. I have been getting #8's last year and they seems to produce a little bigger crappie.
I think that if your lake gives up a fair shair of 1 1/2 to 3 lbers that using the larger #8 minnow will produce bigger stringers.

[blairarnold]

Yeah, I really believe that big crappie prefer a bigger minnow, not bass sized but bigger than the piddly ones.

[NIMROD]

We buy all ours by the pound from Anderson's Minnow Farm in Lonoke, Ar. They have a 6# minimum order. Seems like they are about 30 bucks for 6 lbs. I never knew how the grading system worked until I read Sac-a-Lait's post. I have been getting #8's last year and they seems to produce a little bigger crappie.
I think that if your lake gives up a fair shair of 1 1/2 to 3 lbers that using the larger #8 minnow will produce bigger stringers.

Don't think they're that high, but it may depend on who you know.

[NIMROD]

Yeah, I really believe that big crappie prefer a bigger minnow, not bass sized but bigger than the piddly ones.

My dad always used bigger minnows at Nimrod. I use big jigs all the time. Crappie here feed on Shad most of the time, seen 4+ inch Shad in Crappie often.