Tanks - Chubs Fallfish etc

[ratherbe]

My buddy across the street has a few large holding tanks in his barn. We were talking the other night about converting them to tanks for Chubs fallfish or other hard to source bait. Anyone know if frye can be purchased anywhere? Anyone else raising these things in at home tanks?

I checked out the lists at a couple private hatcheries w/o luck so far anyway. Thanks

[FASTEDDIE29]

Catch em yourself, keep em alive and put them in the tank! Trout streams and certain big rivers are loaded with those baitfish!

[henro]

Are they hardy enough to survive in a tank? What do you use them for? Musky?

[Jigman13]

Fall fish are tough to keep. Chubs will last if the water is clean. How big are the tanks?

[Delawareriver]

Never had any luck with fall fish (half die before I can get them home and the other half die within a few days) but have kept chubs, sunfish, suckers, perch, crappies, trout, bass, bullheads, rock bass and im I'm forgetting a few all alive in a 110 gal feed troughs. Biggest thing is having a good aerator and a good source of water, if you keep a lot of bait in stock or don't want to change the water very often then a filter is also needed.

[ratherbe]

Have several 500 gal and 250 gal tanks, and access to bigger w plenty of space to work with. Ideally it would be creek chubs. Looking for a place to source some frye. We live off the SBR so can go catch em but these huge tanks are just sitting there empty..

Thought I would tap the NJF knowledge pool as i started in on the HW.