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Painting Bait Tanks
Peashooter
Member since Oct-12-02
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Mar-23-03, 08:28 PM (PDT) |
 
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"Painting
the bait tank. What kind of paint?"
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Like
most of you I am looking forward to fishing the
derbys in SMB in April. I've been thinking about
painting my bait tank black for a couple of
seasons but I have an Aqua Sea plastic tank. The
poly plastic is so slick I'm not sure what type
of paint will stick for long. Does anybody have
any experience, good or bad with the same
material. I don't want little black flakes of
paint all over the floor of my old whaler
evertime it gets wet. Any ideas?
Peashooter
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- RE: Painting the bait tank. What kind of paint?, BENTHOOK
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Mar-23-03, 09:10 PM, (1)
- RE:
Painting the bait tank. What kind of paint?, YO
HO ONO,
Mar-23-03, 09:21 PM, (3)
- RE:
Painting the bait tank. What kind of paint?, go1fishing,
Mar-23-03, 09:33 PM, (4)
- RE:
Painting the bait tank. What kind of paint?, JerseyBro,
Mar-24-03, 07:32 AM, (7)
- RE:
Painting the bait tank. What kind of paint?, MaliaFishslayer,
Mar-24-03, 03:07 PM, (8)
- RE:
Painting the bait tank. What kind of paint?, Dreamboat,
Mar-24-03, 08:19 PM, (10)
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LiveBaitLarry
Member since Feb-21-03
53 posts |
Mar-23-03, 09:43 PM (PDT) |
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5.
"RE: Painting the bait tank. What kind of
paint?"
In
response to message #3
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LAST
EDITED ON Mar-23-03 AT 09:45 PM
(PDT)
He is right there isn't a paint known to
man that will stick to polyethylene,
which is what plastic bait tanks are
made of. And I (almost) agree about
"leave well enough alone & just
go fishin" A few years ago when I
owned Kodiak I made an offer to sell
anyone a dark blue tank that wanted one,
I never sold a one. I also contacted my
"knowledge base" the people at
The Monterey Bay Aquarium, they had
given me so much info before I made the
first Proflow tank. I spoke with the
director of life science's at the
aquarium (Mr. Mark Ferguson) about the
possibility that a dark opaque tank
could keep bait alive longer than a
white translucent one.
Marks job is keeping fish alive in
captivity, and his response was he
really didn't see any plus to either
color over the other and more important
was handling, water flow and agitation
of the bait which results in scale loss.
So before you paint your tank, try
this simple test. Cut a large brown leaf
bag apart and use some tape and wrap the
tank with it and go out fishing and see
how your bait does. But of course for
this test to be meaningful you will need
to have another tank on the boat with
the same bait in it that is not covered
so you can compare.
This is where I come in, need a tank?
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Larry
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MaliaFishslayer
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Mar-24-03, 03:07 PM (PDT) |
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8.
"RE: Painting the bait tank. What kind of
paint?"
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Peashooter,
Hope this info will help you out...
Paul and I had an aluminum tank on a Bayrnner
Baja and the bait
always arrived in excellent condition, never
lost any scales and
milled nicely.
Our new boat is a Cortez 22 and has two Pacific
Edge polypropylene
tanks and the bait used to constantly beat
itself up against the sides
and rolled easily.
We came to the hypothesis that the bait did not
see the translucent plastic as a barrier. We
also watch to much TV and saw a program on
Discovery that revealed that many fish could see
the ultraviolet light spectrum and this is how
open water species navigate the worlds oceans
without a compass.
If the UV light comes through the tank walls
then they would not see
that as a barrier.
We applied a coat of paint to our two tanks and
have had great bait
every time, another suggestion that really helps
extend the life of the bait is to attach a tight
lid and over fill the tank to the point that NO
air remains inside while you travel. This helps
to stop
the water from sloshing around ( Thanks Hardcore
for that idea).
The polypropylene does not hold the paint so we
tried sanding the tanks first, just know that
you will have to repaint about every six months
to a year to keep it looking new and as far as
what paint to use don't know what the right
stuff is yet.
Good luck!
Malia and Paul
Cortez 22
FISHING IS A WAY OF LIFE...
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KID
CREOLE
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Mar-25-03, 06:49 AM (PDT) |
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12.
"RE: Painting the bait tank. What kind of
paint?"
In
response to message #11
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I
don't have problems with my poly tank,
on all three of my boats there has been
poly tanks. What I have noticed that
seems to beat up bait has been.
1. Low water level, this causes
sloshing, air bubbles in the water and
inconsistant water flow.
2. Water volume vs. current, the
general rule is 7-10 min fill time which
is pretty close however IMO if the tank
fills in 7-10 mins yet has too much
current in the tank this will tire and
kill the bait.
3. Loading of the bait is critical,
if it's loaded in large full scoops and
lots of scales are falling off the bait
it's doomed.
4. Mixing bait, big bait and small
bait usually don't do well together.
5. Over loading bait for obvious
reasons.
I hope this helps.
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