Storing Shad Guts

[RelicDigger]

 My dad for a-while now stores shad guts & shad in a big container and adds a bunch of salt and freeze ice to it.. he uses it for catfishing and catching crab.  Over the winter he keeps the shad guts in the container, is this necessery for him to do that? he don't even use them in the winter but yet he is still got them in there.

[JeziHogg]

They're his guts, I say he can do whatever he wants with them.

[ww2farmer]

Strangest first post ever.

[Montanaro]

take some out and fry em up with a little bit of onion and garlic!

 

yum!

[K_Mac]

Strangest first post ever.

 

Yep. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

 

I believe the best way of storing shad guts is in a live shad.

[Traveler2586]

It's called Chum, and is used to attract fish to your area.

 

When I was a teen we would clean our catch and grind the leftovers (using an old hand crank meat grinder) into a plastic bag inside a 5 gal bucket.  We would put the bag in a horizontal freezer for storage.  On the next fishing trip we would take the bags, punch holes in then, and hang them over the side of the boat.  As the icy mix melted it would leak from the bags and in a while we would have fish around the boat.  It worked while fishing at anchor, drifting, and slow trolling.

 

As for crabbing, we would hang a chum bag from the dock and give it some time to work (attract the crabs), then we would crab using chicken necks.

[Bluebasser86]

I guess I don't fully understand your question. Are you saying he could keep them in a different container? That it gets cold enough he could keep them outside? or that he should get rid of them over the winter and just catch more shad in the spring? I keep large gizzard shad in the deep freeze at all times for whenever I want to go catfishing but I wouldn't want them in there without being in some kind of container. 

[daiwaguy]

Strangest first post ever.

HAHAHA. Dont know why but that made me laugh when I scrolled down.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

HAHAHA. Dont know why but that made me laugh when I scrolled down.

 

Says the guy crawling out of the water holding a bass. LOL

[MarkH024]

Apparently his shad gut issue wasn't that big of a problem since that was his 1 and only post.  Very odd indeed.  You would think he'd take it up with the old man and not a bunch of fishing knuckleheads online.

[A-Jay]

Says the guy crawling out of the water holding a bass. LOL

 

Right and besides - noodling doesn't count.

 

 

A-Jay

[daiwaguy]

Says the guy crawling out of the water holding a bass. LOL

Yeah that was a strange catch. That guy actually wrapped my line around a submerged log. I thought he got off but to my surprise whe is was unwinding my line from around the log it took off and a just pulled my line back till he was in my hands. Weird day but pretty fun.

[daiwaguy]

Yeah that was a strange catch. That guy actually wrapped my line around a submerged log. I thought he got off but to my surprise whe is was unwinding my line from around the log it took off and a just pulled my line back till he was in my hands. Weird day but pretty fun.

And I got my lure back.

[RoLo]

It makes me drool just thinking about it