I think you’d be supprised Mr. Beads. I have seen a wholesale minnow shop located a little ways north of TC’s first hand. 1500 minnows would be like a single hair on a winter coated Labrador retriever for that place.

I want to see a pic of your minnow bucket

It’s not like a could make a quick run to a harbor and fix it and then run right back in a big swell like that. Good luck beaching on shore in that.

A knife is a good idea. I was using an electric bow mounted anchor years ago on the pond. One day in big swells the rope jumped the reel and got tightly jammed inside the anchor housing and around the reel shaft. Will never forget that day, me up on the bow platform hanging on for dear life with one hand and a screw driver in the other, all while trying to unscrew the anchor cover and get that son of a gun unjammed. Not fun.

Bass in danger? Bass population will be decimated? Yeah, I kinda don’t think so. I have never heard of this happening in my lifetime, anyplace. However bass overpopulation is something I hear all the time. The way some anglers covet bass will do more harm to them then the anglers who eat a few will.