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If you run a boat and a livewell try this once the water warms up some , take some one gallon jugs and freeze them with water in them , drop 2 or 3 in your livewell when you head out . they will not stay frozen all day or even past lunch if you go early , but they WILL keep the temperature low enough in said livewell to not have discolored, pale, sad eyed, pink gilled crappie when you get to the boat ramp .
just a quick tip to keep em a bit more fresh till they hit the ice chest ....:highfive
I do this regularly AND fill Wal Mart sacks from the ice makers and keep them in the freezer. I keeps the ice for drinks fresher (IMHO) and a good stock of ice for the cooler after a trip!
Been doing that for years. 1 litre bottles stacked in do great and give you some ice cold water to drink on a hot day too. Keeps from having to empty icy/fishy water from a cooler!
HA !! When I first saw the title of this thread I thought it was about "blocks" of ice ... and I was immediately taken back to my childhood when my Grandpa and I would drive to town, to the "ice house", and get a block of ice for the cooler that we'd take out in the boat for a days fishing. A couple of quick jabs to the block, with a ice pick, and we'd have big chunks of ice to nestle our glass bottles of pop into .... and a place to drop the fish we caught for the ride home.
Oh, and as far as the actual intent of the thread .... yes, I've used gallon jugs of ice, many times, to cool down the livewell water & keep the fish alive during the warm/hot weather season. I prefer using the gallon sized Arizona Sweet Tea jugs, over the milk jugs, because they're thicker and less prone to getting punctured. :twocents
Ive been using milk jigs for years. It keeps them fresh.
There is a intake addition that drops down on your live well intake to pick up cooler water. Anyone ever tried this? With summer temps just around the corner, thinking of trying something lake this. Here surface temps can get close to 100 degrees some days.
When my grandfather got s block of ice it was to freeze ice cream.
Never heard of it , but makes sense to meQuote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Only if you run a recirculating system. You can also add calming agents to your livewell and this will help as well, fish use less oxygen when they are calm. It was big on the bass tourney side years ago but has died off because tourneys dont want you acclimating the fish to the altered water before releasing again, it doesn't matter when you release to a cleaning table.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
Otherwise you can just run fresh water often. I pump fresh and overflow back to lake 90 seconds on, 30 seconds off when its warm. Havent had any problems keeping 30 keepers alive all day in the july/august heat. I couldn't do it with 30 2lbers though. But honestly i just bring a cooler when its super hot out and i plan to keep fish, they go on ice for the ride home anyways so might as well start there. I don't tournament fish so no need for the fancy chillers and o2 systems
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Ive only seen the intakes that force water through your system when motoring. An intake that drops down sounds like something i would own once, because i would forget its down on the first day and it would be ripped right off.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
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My dad worked at an ice house making those blocks, around the time I was born. Front street in Morgan City across the streets of the Atchafalaya river. The shrimp boats would get ice there. Yes we had they grew up using an ice box, not refrigerator. I was born a couple blocks away and was one of the last babies born there. The old hospital closed the next month and the new one, which stills exists was opened a few miles across town. March 1955.
I freeze 20 ounce drink bottles to put in my minnow bucket, although rarely use it. I was thinking 1 gallon zip lock bags would be good and reusable for live well or ice chest.