I like the ice right away, keeps them fresh and easy to fillet. Also a nice tip for your fish basket even if you have a floating lid. Take one of those long floating noodles that your kids or grandkids use in the pool or lake and run a rope though the hollow part in the middle cut it to size and wrap it around the neck of your basket tie the ends together and it will never sink.

Works like a champ and is cheap.

Junie