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| I have fished quite a few tournaments where you have to keep your fish alive, what different ideas do other people have to do this? I`ll start out with a couple of mine, I made a water pick-up out of plastic pipe elbows to fit on the water intake of my Lund, it sticks below the boat by 1/4 inch, all I do is leave the lever to on and it fills with fresh water as your traveling. The excess water runs out the overflow.......... This cost about $2.50 to do.....I always did this because those Big eyes use a lot of oxygen out of the water..........another thing I do is have a few bags of ICE on board, I don`t know if it was just keeping that water cool that did the trick or maybe the cold water slowed them down or relaxed them, but I ran 18 miles with the outside water temp at 78 deg, using a 125 quart cooler with an aireator rigged up, and those fish were so LIVELY they couldn`t hardly get em to sit still to be weighed............I guess one of the best things to do is give your self plenty of time to get in, you wont beat them to death.......What Ideas do you guys have??????? |
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Location: Rhinelander | Oxygen and temperature are critical. Keeping the usually much warmer surface water from the weigh in area out of the well helps, so a good recirculating pump will help keep the fish fiesty. |
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Location: Midland, MI 48642 | Go to the following link and you will find the survivor. It is the BEST thing you can to your boat to keep fish alive. I have one on my skeeter and it really works great.
http://www.lake-link.com/store/itemdetails.cfm?ProductID=164 |
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| This is what I've always used and they work great. Keeping the livewell full is as important as anything with lots of water flowing through.
http://www.thmarine.com/product.cfm?PRID=168 |
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| Can you rig the survivor on a Skeeter 2050 with the slanted offset pad? |
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| Tacklebox - 9/15/2004 11:20 AM
Can you rig the survivor on a Skeeter 2050 with the slanted offset pad?
I don't know about the Skeeter, but I can't put one on my YarCraft because of the curvrature of the hull around the water intake. |
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| In addition to a fresh water pick-up. I always plug my overflow and let the water run onto the floor and into the boat. Automatic bilge then discharges. This leaves no space for air in the livewell and helps prevent the "sloshing" effect when running which beats up the fish. Not bouncing off the livewell walls does wonders for the fish!!!
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| Aqua Innovations has a really smart system out there now too. I'm considering putting one in my next rig. It maintains a high oxygen saturation in the water of the livewell, even moreso than the recirculator systems we normally have in our boats. I believe Tracker has them in the "pro team edition" Tundras. |
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Location: Combined Locks, WI | The "Survivor" really is an awsome product that won't break the bank. It is not rigid and will flex at speeds and will also flex and deflect if you should hit something. For more info goto www.ynottech.com |
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| I agree, the Survivor is the best product out there!!! It takes about a minute to install with no altering your boat. Check Y-Not Technologies if you have questions e-mail Robert he will do what he can to get it to work on your boat! Good Luck....Todd Mueller |
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Location: Neenah, WI | Probably the biggest mistake I've seen lately is people drawing outside water while waiting for the weigh in. There's lots of gas and oil in the water from all the boats and that's not good for the fish. Once you fill the livewell go to recirculate. I also have a survivor on my Cresliner and it's 30 bucks well spent. |
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| sorry tacklebox ! it will not fit the 2050. because of the inward slant. a very big THANK YOU to the rest that such kind words to say about our product SURVIVOR. take care and be safe----robert |
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| I just put a Survivor on my Ranger 692 and it was simple to install. Was wondering if, because it does flex, does that prevent water from entering at higher running speeds? |
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| I guess I have another question for you guys. I set the intake just so the bottom sticks out under the hull as the directions say. Did I do that right or does the whole intake have to be under the hull line to work? Thanks. |
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| hi jess
best bet is to lower it a little more. like about 1/2 to 3/4 below the boat . that seems to be the sweet spot for rangers. you can always keep adjusting to fit your needs. should fill at top speed without any problems if adjusted properly. usually only a tweek away. thank you very much---robert |
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| I put a Survivor on my 1895 Storm DC Yar-Craft this spring and it works perfect. I have it hooked up to my right rear live well. I already have a fresh water pick (the ones you can buy at Fleet-Farm) for my front live well. Anyway, the transom on my boat is offset and actually has an inset well about 4-5" or so directly in front of my 200 EFI - if my memory serves me right. I attached the Survivor unit the the left pump intake (for the back livewell) and angled it to the left about 45 degrees. This is just enough to "pick up" water flowing past that corner and easily pushes it to the my back livewell. Hopefully, this info will help you. |
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| This is great discussion, The DNR has created an advisory board for recommending tournament rules and regs for the upcomming season and one of the first topics of discussion is livewell requirements for tournaments in Wisconsin. I will be forwarding some info to them and I expect some of these comments to be discussed. If there are other products out there that help I would appreciate links to them so I can research some of this more! It would be nice if there were incentives to those anglers that used these systems rather than a penalty for dead fish at the weigh in don't you think?
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| tyee
if you would. please give us a call at 262-644-5337. we would like to talk to you about this d.n.r proposal and advisory board. i called them a while back about the the meeting in stevens point. but got no response.we would very much like to be in on this. and really bring this extremley important issue to the forfront.as an x tournament guy, i know how much this type of device is needed. thats why i designed it. not only for the tourny guy, but for the every day fisherman that wants to practice catch and release.hopefully talk to you soon----robert |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Tyee,
here is another option that I have heard of. I have no experience with using this system but have heard second hand that it works and could be an answer to future DNR demands.
http://www.aquainnovationsinc.com/
anyone using this system?
My first reaction is pricey. |
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| Does any boat manufacturer insulate their livewell ? I know some used to have a divider in them so you could separate the fish so they weren`t banging into each other......Keep thinking guys , you all have ideas and experiance. |
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Location: Appleton wi | This is great information Guys!! Thank you very much |
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| to Sunshine. We have a oxygenator in our livewell from Aqua Innovations and when we put our fish in the basket to take to weigh-in they are literally jumping. No dead fish for us, they remain healthy even if they were the first catch of the day. We are pleased with it totally. |
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Location: Combined Locks, WI | One of my co anglers in the RCL walleye league told me that on hot days when the water is hot (like we had this year in July for the RCL league on Bago) to put a pinch of canning salt in the live well. I don't know if this is true or not, and would love to hear from someone that may know the answer. |
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| Just wondering what the salt would do????? |
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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin | The survivor helps to put fresh water in while running. Perfect. At that RCL where everybodys fish turned south, they were setting in the harbor for how long before weigh in? It was hot and how many guys had there aerator pumps on. Then if you recirculated it got hotter yet. Roberts product will not help in the situation. A approach would be the use of ice to cool the water. Insert a chunk of ice and recirculate. Make sure to shut down all water intake while still out on the lake. The harbors are full of gas. Lets not start making rules that something else has to be added to a boat just to fish a tournament. Just like most things, common sense will rule. |
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