MonticelloMinnow & Tackle

The wall and the tanks

What's in the tanks and on the wall.

Silver minnows in the tanks. Worms in lidded cups in the cooler. Crickets in a screened bin when we can get them. If a card says Out, we're out.

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  • Aerated glass bait tank of silver minnows along a shop wall, with a dip net held over a round foam minnow bucket of water.

    Minnows

    In

    $4.50 a dozen Demo price

    Silver fatheads and shiners in the aerated tanks along the wall. We dip them with a net into your foam bucket, or a knotted plastic bag of water if you forgot one.

  • Open glass-door bait cooler stocked with lidded styrofoam cups, and one open cup of nightcrawlers in soil bedding.

    Nightcrawlers

    In

    $4.00 a dozen Demo price

    A dozen to a lidded styrofoam cup with bedding, kept in the glass-door cooler. Red worms are in the lidded cups beside them at $3.75 a dozen, demo price.

  • A whole clear plastic cup of wax worms in sawdust bedding on a wooden counter, with the lid beside the cup.

    Wax worms

    Low

    $3.50 a dozen Demo price

    Pale larvae in a lidded plastic cup of sawdust bedding. The cup count is thin after Saturday. Call before you count on them.

  • A whole round aerated bait tank holding silver threadfin shad in a tackle shop.

    Live shad

    Low

    $8.00 a dozen Demo price

    Threadfin shad in the round aerated tank. We had a run on them Sunday. If the tank is down to a handful, the freezer packs are the backup.

  • An open chest freezer in a bait shop filled with vacuum-sealed packs of frozen baitfish.

    Frozen bait

    In

    $6.00 a pack Demo price

    Vacuum packs of frozen shad in the chest freezer. Use them when the live tank is low, or for a slow troll when you do not want to keep a bucket alive.

  • A screened wooden cricket bin beside a closed wire-mesh cricket cage on a bait-shop counter.

    Crickets

    Out

    $3.00 a dozen Demo price

    When they are in, they live in a screened bin and go home in your wire-mesh cricket cage or a small closed plastic bag. Cool October nights emptied the bin. We will say when they are back.

  • A whole glass-front ice merchandiser outside a bait shop, stocked with bags of cube ice.

    Bagged ice

    In

    $2.50 / $4.75 Demo price

    Seven-pound and twenty-pound bags in the ice merchandiser out front. Grab a bag on the way to the ramp. Both sizes are demo prices.

  • A whole glass-door drink cooler and a wire snack rack of chips and peanuts inside a bait shop.

    Drinks and snacks

    In

    $1.50 – $2.75 Demo price

    Bottled water, canned drinks, chips, and peanuts in the cooler by the counter. Enough to get you through the morning. Every tag is a demo price.

Tackle wall

The three things folks ask for most after reading the report. The rest is on the wall when you come in.

  • Complete crappie jigs with chartreuse, white, and pink soft plastics laid out on a wooden counter.

    Crappie jigs

    $3.25 a 2-pack Demo price

    Chartreuse, white, and pink tubes and curly tails. The 1/16 ounce heads are what the report is talking about this week.

  • Three complete walleye spinner harnesses with blades, beads, and hooks, each fully visible on a wooden counter.

    Walleye rigs

    $6.50 each Demo price

    Spinner harnesses with a blade, beads, and a crawler hook. Slow-troll them on a bottom bouncer where the report says 28 to 38 feet.

  • Four complete white striper bucktail jigs with hooks, fully visible on a wooden counter.

    Striper bucktails

    $7.75 each Demo price

    White bucktails sized for the schools on the lower creek arms. Throw one early, before the sun gets on the water.

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