Clam Floating Fish Well – Yea or New

This is the mesh one that fits in the ice hole. Pros and cons, please.

Seems like a waste of money. Slit their gills right after you catch them and throw them in a bucket with some snow so they don’t freeze. Freshest filets this way.

Netguy wrote:

This is the mesh one that fits in the ice hole. Pros and cons, please.

I have the large one that Bruce Marsh offered before Clam bought his Today’s Tackle out. I use it when I’m dock fishing or from a canoe or when a live well isn’t handy. It helps keep the fish alive unless its really warm water or the weather is super warm. I never tried it on the ice even though that’s what it was designed for.

I’ve been with a buddy that’s used one, they work okay if it’s not too cold out or in a heated shack. Just make sure to pull on it here and there so it doesn’t freeze to the sides of the hole.

I myself prefer a 3.5 gallon sheetrock mud bucket, I top the fish off with snow and can still stack a graph on top of it.

On the drive/ride back it keeps the fish contained, the graph protected and takes up less room than a 5 gallon.