Dead Croakers-dead shrimp-fishing trip finished

[muton44]

There's is a problem, a bad problem keeping croakers and shrimp alive. We have you bought many croakers and spent a lot of time catching live bait and everything dies or the quality turns to crab bait before noon. We have wasted $100's of dollars and countless hours of time catching live bait in the last month and ended up with crab bait and this problem is getting worse and more expensive by the trip.

Are you having problems keeping croakers and shrimp alive? We have tried all the usual recommendations, ice, bigger water pumps, croaker saver chemicals, prayer and the results are the same dismal mess-dead bait.

My fishing buddy says hurry and hook the liveliest croakers first before they die. He's right but surely there is a better less expensive way to keep croaker and shrimp alive a few hours.

The bait house guy says the same thing plus, "ya'll come back when ya'll need more croakers."