Don't Forget to Count Your Fish.

[Mitch f]

54 minutes ago, fshndoug said:

tell the wife you need a new boat,just saying!

 

Maybe 400 Million in cash will mysteriously show up on a pallet and he can buy a new one.

[jdmidwest]

12 hours ago, fshndoug said:

tell the wife you need a new boat,just saying!

 

Just got it this spring.

[jim m]

20 hours ago, fshndoug said:

tell the wife you need a new boat,just saying!

 

nuw that's the best idea yet, won't workm but a great idea

[rps]

Based upon a cooler experience of similar ugliness, I suggest:

Air dry it with the lid open for at least two weeks. If you go out in the boat during that time, do not let water into it. After a couple of weeks, use bleach water and a natural fiber bristle brush to scrub the devil out of it. Air dry it again for a week.

Then promise yourself to never let that happen again.

 

[Mitch f]

What about lemons?

[mzrealfish]

I've seen the dog rolling in it scenario before. 

 

When I was in Culinary school down in Charleston, SC we would go fishing and shrimping every weekend.   Once, we forgot about a few mullet in a bait cooler.  

The following weekend I opened it and nearly blacked out.   There were foamy, gray bubbles on the top of the water.  We decided to put the lid back on and try to clean it at the boat landing.   So we get there and I ran a ways up the hill behind a huge patch of bamboo and dumped everything out.  Puked. 

Went down to the water and filled it with sand and water and left it in the sun.  About an hour later a guy pulled up to the landing in his boat.  His black lab jumped off the boat and ran straight to the dump site,  rolled over on his back and covered his scent.  Then he ran proudly back to his owner who screamed and then puked everywhere. 

 

I felt terrible then but laugh about it regularly now.  Every time my dogs start rolling on whatever they are rolling on in my back yard I think to myself "that probably smells like death or dung but definitely smells better than my old bait cooler".

 

Thanks for the memory

[jdmidwest]

Thanks for bringing the foamy gray mess back up.  I think the smell still lingers in my nose hairs from Thurs. still.

[dtrs5kprs]

No matter what you clean it with, let it dry and flush it out after you are done. As in fill it and drain it a couple of times. Then use a livewell cleaner on it to make it fish friendly again. 

There are a bunch, this is one...

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Sure-Life_TLC_Tank_and_Livewell_Cleaner_8_oz/descpage-SLTLC.html

[jdmidwest]

10 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

No matter what you clean it with, let it dry and flush it out after you are done. As in fill it and drain it a couple of times. Then use a livewell cleaner on it to make it fish friendly again. 

There are a bunch, this is one...

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Sure-Life_TLC_Tank_and_Livewell_Cleaner_8_oz/descpage-SLTLC.html

"Fish will be clambering over themselves to get in the livewell".  Right now, you can't knock a fly off of it and the buzzards are circling.

Looks like I have a few more weeks to worry about it.  Montauk this  coming weekend and jet boats on the 11pt the following weekend.  Maybe it will air out some in the mean time.

[Mitch f]

Here you go JD...

 

 

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