smelt?

[Christian]

skunked on a smelting trip at marina bay last sunday. got there too late, they were biting around from anytime before and up to around 8am. people who did catch caught bout a donzen a piece. i did find a way to keep my left over bait. i took an old fish tank and filled it with fresh water and let it sit for a week with a filter running. i then went fishing and didnt have much bait stolen so i had plenty left. i put the shrimp into a gallon jug of marina bay water and carted them home. when i got home i just dumped them into the fresh water along with the marina bay water. seems that they are brackish water shrimps. a bunch were dead before they even touched the water and i culled those out. only a few have died since last night my estimate is five and they were probally already dead when i was removing the dead the day before and just looked over them. i dont know what to feed them but the marina bay water probally had tuns of stuff for them to eat. i did notice while poking around the dock that some fisherman take jugs and drill holes in them and then lower them down into the water with their leftover shrimp. think i'll put some of my own into a jug just to have them there for other times, that way i can always count on having them there in times of desperation. just as long as nobody takes em, but everybody down there seems nice enoguh not too. how long does the smelting last around here? when i went to marthas vinyard over the summer and went spear fishing you could see a few lone smelt just starting to show up around the deep spots of the pier. its illegal to take smelt by spear, and i don't know why anyone would want too try.