20 Gallon Bait Tank Build Project

[Blue_Runner]

I want to start doing some livebaiting for stripers on the area lakes using mainly hickory and threadfin shad. These boogers require an act of congress to keep them alive. I had a 20 gallon tub laying around for years that I've alway wanted to use. My good buddy Garrett has an extensive background in stucco work, that coupled with his desire to catch the landlocked freshwater stripers is all I needed to get this project going. That and the ever-so-important input from the V20's most notorious striper king - Reelapeelin.

Here's the build pics. They are pretty self explanatory. I don't have the pump in yet and Reel says we gotta insulate the bottom so I'll circle back and add those pics once done. The tub is wrapped with 2 layers of 1/2 inch styrofoam, then another 3/4 sheet of styrofoam. Next is 2 layers of fiberglass mesh bedded in with some kind of rubber coating stuff and topped with an additional 3 - 4 coats of the rubber-like stuff. Garrett did a fantastic job...I only helped a little with gluing the first 2 layers of foam, he did the rest.


Here it is: