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    All good info, keep it coming!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cane Pole View Post
    I use one of these baskets when using my Jon boat. Also use one when fishing around the dock. Handy tool. I got one that floats, and one that don't for the seasons. I also tied the bottom trap. Lost fish one time.
    I tied the bottom up too. After the first time I forgot to pick it up moving to another spot. Lost every fish in it.

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    I put about 4" of water from the spigot at house and put 2 frozen 1.5 liter drink bottles of water in the ice chest. About half my specks will be alive when I get home.
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    I use live well but I watch the fish in case they die. I also carry a cooler with 1 gal. each of water and ice. If I have fish to clean I bleed out in live well then put on "empty"on the way to ramp. The live well will be empty of bloody water so I put fish in cooler and pour in the water from jug. I keep gal. jugs of ice and water in fridge at home. If fins don't poke holes in jugs I just put back in freezer. The ice jugs will have ice in the middle (usually) and cold water around the ice. I would rather refreeze like this, they refreeze real well without distorting and remain flat on the bottom. Milk jugs are plentiful for me but they are thin and leak easier. I have seen many put hot lake water in the cooler, but I like to start off with cold water.
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    I keep my fish alive in live well by filling with the lake water in the morning and adding melted ice water as needed during the day. I also use an aquarium aerator. To just keep them fresh, I use one bag of ice in the live well and plenty of frozen water jugs. I like to keep a little water on them thru out the day. Drain off later.

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    In the Summer mine go straight into an ice slurry fresh off the hook and cleaned when I get home with ice cold water. I want them getting cold from the inside out. They feelay easier when ice cold.
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    I had an oxygenator put in my live well years ago. I turn it on as soon as I get to the lake and fill up the live well. It's not necessary to add anything when water temps are low but when hot weather hits, I keep the recirculating pump working. After several fish, I continue to check until I see fish start struggling. Then I will take a floating fish basket and tie to the side of the boat and take a fillet knife and slash the gills to bleed them. Then I put them in the fish basket. Bleeding them really made a difference in how they tasted. (got that tip from an episode on In Fisherman) The fish will die quickly (more humanely) I then put them on top of ice in a cooler after draining the water.
    This stiffens them up making them much easier to fillet at the end of the day. I had my floating fish basket open on one trip and and they were all floating on top of the water because they had already bled out.
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    When I keep fish, I usually take a cooler and buy 2 bags of ice at the store. I open one bag and pour it in the bottom of the cooler. I put the other bag in the cooler without opening it. I put the fish directly in the cooler when I catch them. The fish stay cold like that and when I'm done fishing, I open the second bag and spread the ice over the fish. That way, the fish have a layer of ice above and below. That works great as long as the layer if fish between the ice doesn't get too thick. I usually don't have that problem...lol I've noticed that the fish fillet easier if you let them get really cold first. I use a regular knife, not an electric one. I never got the hang of using the electric knife.
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