Flex, buy a simple aerator with battery and a large minnow bucket or try to keep them alive in an ice chest with the lid open. Might need to put a bag of ice in there. Shrimp die pretty quick in hot water with no aerator. You can get frozen shrimp at most stores along Hackberry Highway. Cormie's on Country Club road certainly has then, but that is the wrong side of the lake for you. I am pretty sure that Spicers has frozen shrimp as well. You probably won't have as much luck with frozen shrimp. Fish are pretty picky about live shrimp. Watch the tides and you can probably pick up fish along the entrances to West Cove from the ship channel and across the ship channel near 9 mile cut. If that doesn't work, fish the points off of the ship channel around Monkey Island (near the Cameron Ferry). Live Shrimp normally do well there with tidal movement. The wind looks pretty favorable this weekend. If you launch in West Cove, there is normally a pretty good reef in the south part of Big Lake that will probably have a lot of boats in the early morning around it. Just look for the big group of boats. That is usually a good reef in the summer. Good luck.
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