Livewell as fishbox

[CCparker]

Just wanted to share this with the CP community. Not sure if any of you do this, but on my CC, I frequently use my above deck livewell as a fishbox. A 1 1/4 inch to 1 1/2 inch rubber drain stopper works pretty well to plug up the drain hole. I load it with ice and seawater (using the livewell pump) and have found that it keeps ice pretty well for most trips and you'd be surprised how big a fish wil actually fit in there.

Its important to turn off the livewell spigot up inside the livewell, but more importantly, I close the seacock down in the bilge while running hard. Its fine while trolling or moving to re-start a drift, but while running, you will get alot of water melting all your ice.

I've been lookign for a threaded plug to use to screw into the livewell drain, but have not found one yet. So far, the rubber plug works out OK. Anyone else do anything similar?

 

[Outta Here]

Where do you put your bait, seperate livewell?

I used to put a cooler between the jump seats.

 

[CCparker]

Except when using live bunker in the spring for bass, I don't very often use live bait for alot of the fishing that I do. For flounder pounding, I just use the standard killie bucket over the side. Easier to get the bait out.