You guys that use a cooler to keep your fish how do you do it??Do you load it down and keep the fish covered with ice or what?
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You guys that use a cooler to keep your fish how do you do it??Do you load it down and keep the fish covered with ice or what?
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I just put the ice in and toss the fish on top. It it’s really hot I distribute the ice around the fish.
I do it the same way. If I am cleaning the next morning I will stop by and get ice to put on top. Cooler weather fish in the livewell until I get back to the truck then they go on ice
YepYep same here. Fish go straight on ice unless it’s cool outside, usually 65 degrees or less is my rule
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I usually just tie a stringer off my yak. But gonna be fishing where there’s gators. Don’t feel safe doing that there.
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If I did it would be a break away stringer. That could make for a wild ride. When I limb lined out of a kayak I would throw the catfish in the thr bottom of the kayak and carry them back to the truck and put them on ice. Crappie would go into a small airlock brand cooler, fabric sides with a hard removable inside container. It would slip under the deck of the little sit in Pelican kayak. Wade fishing the Gulf of Mexico meant fish on a stringer with the potential of having your stringer grabbed by a shark. The stringers were made to break away. Better to lose a stringer of fish than to take an unwanted ride
frozen water bottles and soft sided cooler.
For smaller fish like crappie or trout, I will slide them into a plastic grocery store bag, mostly to keep the slime down.
If I use loose ice, I place into a gallon ziplock bag, and place this on top off the fish. It makes clean out of the cooler at the end of the day easier.
I like a nice slurry mix of salt, water and ice. There is absolutely no way you should dangle ANYTHING over the side of your yak with dragons about.
Ran across a cooler for kayaks called a creek cooler. Floating towable cooler. Little on the pricey side. I do like the convenience of it.