What do you use to store your catch?

[Mrmerck]

As the Virginia weather has started to really heat up I`ve started to question the best method of storing my catch.

I see a little bit of everything ...5 gallon buckets, fish baskets, cheap coolers, and even noticed Richard Gene putting his in a Yeti. Wife says we are not buying a Yeti for fish storage..ha

No, my jon boat doesn`t have a live well.


What do you guys use that do not have live wells?

Thanks!

[DockShootinJack]

If I am keeping they go in a cooler on lots of ice. If not they quickly go back in the water

[SuperDave336]

Just an igloo cooler and bag of ice. Works for me. Doesn’t have to be fancy.

[abarkley]

28 quart lifetime cooler on ice. will hold all I want to keep and clean in the summer. $94 at Walmart. just as functional as a 35 quart Yeti

[Alphahawk]

I’ve got a live well but in the summer if I’m keeping fish I toss them in a cooler full of ice. No way they will stay alive in a live well with 90 degree water temps.

Regards


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[Chuck Adams]

Soft sided cooler with ice for me.


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[cevans]

YETI cooler with ice in summer.

[6poundtest]

Run of the mill cooler and ice for me, not sure of the size but it fits OK in my rowboat.

[Ketchn]

if you have a live well it needs an ice block dropped in when you hit the water , if not right into an ice chest with an ice block , remember to rotate the fish after you have a few so the ones not on the actual ice get to chill on it , sometimes the fish on the pile dont get chilled if you don't rotate them and not sure about you but I hate to see a washed out pale crappie in my ice chest .
but to be sure it is way way WAY easier to just toss them back where they originated from .....

[BuckeyeCrappie]

I fill the livewell with ice. If I was bank fishing I would be putting them on a stringer and then icing on the way home depending on the distance I have to travel.