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Looking for small packages of fish meal #7816873
03/09/23 06:56 PM
03/09/23 06:56 PM
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Rochester, MN
Teacher Offline OP
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I’ve discovered fish meal. Now I have to find it in bags smaller than 50 pounds. Does anyone have any ideas where I can find some?


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Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7816916
03/09/23 07:48 PM
03/09/23 07:48 PM
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Oregon
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Are you using it for trap bait or gardening? I recently bought some 50 lb bags....it has gotten pretty expensive. I paid $65/bag


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Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7816945
03/09/23 08:36 PM
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Trapper Arts has it in pints and gallons I believe

Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7817062
03/09/23 10:08 PM
03/09/23 10:08 PM
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Nebraska
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Grawes, sell it.

Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7817070
03/09/23 10:13 PM
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Rochester, MN
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It’ll be trapping bait. Glycerine mixed with fish meal makes a decent smear bait. But herring oil and fish meal makes a smear bait that has a stronger fishy smell.


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Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7817194
03/10/23 01:06 AM
03/10/23 01:06 AM
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Oregon
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Around here many garden centers will carry pure fishmeal in 2 or 5 lb packages.


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Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7817323
03/10/23 08:23 AM
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Haven't bought any in awhile but I've gotten it from Renno's in the past. The packages were maybe 5 pounds each.

Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7817647
03/10/23 03:28 PM
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most farm seed stores sells it.


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Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: minklessinpa] #7817838
03/10/23 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by minklessinpa
most farm seed stores sells it.



There's your answer !

Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7817889
03/10/23 10:07 PM
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Stop by your local feed mill with a 5 gallon bucket

Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7817945
03/10/23 11:13 PM
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Don’t quote me on this but I think what garden centers and seed stores sell in the 1 or 5 pound bags is different than what the feed mills use in bulk.

Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7818229
03/11/23 11:50 AM
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Hydroponic stores sell it in smaller bags


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Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7818860
03/12/23 09:40 AM
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Try Albert Lea seed house maybe

Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7818893
03/12/23 10:26 AM
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chinazon has small bags of it

Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7861523
05/08/23 12:45 AM
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Rochester, MN
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The stuff at lawn and garden stores have A LOT of bone meal in them and the fish meal is essentially odorless. Just the way gardeners like it.

The hydroponic supplier stuff is the same way. Nobody wants to attract to their garden arrangements. Keg Creek and Renno’s have it. Both are good people to deal with.


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Re: Looking for small packages of fish meal [Re: Teacher] #7866060
05/15/23 01:33 PM
05/15/23 01:33 PM
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Louisiana
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Originally Posted by Teacher
The stuff at lawn and garden stores have A LOT of bone meal in them and the fish meal is essentially odorless. Just the way gardeners like it.

The hydroponic supplier stuff is the same way. Nobody wants to attract to their garden arrangements. Keg Creek and Renno’s have it. Both are good people to deal with.



The fish meal I have handled locally didn't seem to have bone meal in it. We called it Pogie Meal and it is like oily-ish, brown powder made using pogie/menhaden.

I haven't bought it in years, but it was/is a very popular product with cast netters. Their basic recipe is to add a little water until it forms a dough. The dough balls are thrown out into the water and allowed to sink to the bottom to attract shrimp.

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