Anyone install a livewell in an SS?

[Kimmer64]

Re: Anyone install a livewell in an SS?

So you keep the first limit of fish you catch, and call it a day?

 

[cedarjunki]

Re: Anyone install a livewell in an SS?

But my question about that is, if you are fishing in water so rough that a fish is getting beat up in your livewell, where would they be safe?

the stern of the boat is the smoothest ride, atleast for mine it is. i dont jump waves or even go very fast in those conditions. but my bow does ride up and then drop off waves quite often.

 

[dozerII]

Re: Anyone install a livewell in an SS?

Here is my set-up. The cooler is dedicated as a live well, as the wife doesn't want it for anything else anyway. I cut a six inch hole in the lid and made a flap out of a 1/2 inch thick poly cutting board from the Dollar store. It opens the opposite way as the cooler so you don't fight with it when you open the cooler. The tray on the other side is glued on with Gluzit plastic glue and is for cutting bait on, the lip around the side stops things from sliding off the tray. I use a Mr Bubbles airator to keep the fish alive, and I have a spare bildge pump that I use to fill it and change some water during the day. There are pumps out there that will do both. I sit the cooler between the consuls with the lid on the hole to the back of the boat and I can step on the lid to get on my casting deck. I also installed a power outlet in the dash on the left side consul to plug the pump or airator in.
Glen

 

[elkhunter338]

Re: Anyone install a livewell in an SS?

I like your ice chest live well, looks simple and cost effective and portable. I would opt for the ice chest solution and ice chests come in many sizes, do not rust, reasonable priced. I however I have a kill well installed in my boat. Big ice chest with a drain plumbed into the old sink drain. I installed a water pump and plumbed a hose to the fish box with a on/off switch near the fish box. Pump is mounted on the transmon and pickup is plumbed through an existing hole that was already in the transom above the water line, I have a ridgid tube that goes into the water.
I bleed all my fish I plan to keep and rinse them with cool water several times during the day until I return to dock. The kill box.

 

[elkhunter338]

Re: Anyone install a livewell in an SS?

There was one who wanted some more information. Attached are some pictures of the water pump, and fish box connections.
I used a impeller water pump with pvc piping for the suction and outlet and plumbed pvc pip upto the fishbox with a garden hose connections for the water line and drain lines. My boat already had a hole through the transmon when I bought it that a piece of 3/4 sch40 pvc pip would fit through.
Like I stated I used the existing sink drain hole through the boat for the fish box drain. I hate drilling new holes in a boat.