livewells
jig doc
Posted 1/27/2013 8:41 AM (#612671)
Subject: livewells


Do any tournaments have a minimum size livewell requirement? I'm curious if this is a consideration in purchasing a boat since normally we don't even use a livewell.
Junkman
Posted 1/27/2013 10:51 AM (#612687 - in reply to #612671)
Subject: RE: livewells




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Times have clearly changed since transport has left the building, and sometimes I wish my 50 inch live well was another dry storage. Then there are those unique days when I believe I have successfully revived a fish from certain doom, often not even a fish from my boat. A big live well with a good oxygenating pump and the addition of oxy-boosting crystals can seem to almost call Lazarus from the tomb. Mostly, for me now however, it's just a place to keep my suckers in the fall .
horsehunter
Posted 1/27/2013 11:20 AM (#612689 - in reply to #612671)
Subject: Re: livewells




Location: Eastern Ontario
My livewell is plugged off at the back of the boat and it is filled with2.5 inch downspout it has become my tackle box.
Technically in Ontario a fish under the min. size limit must be released immediately (all muskies on a conservation license ) A lot of areas this min is over 50 inched. Also technically a fish over the min size limit when placed in a live well is considered a kept fish and your day would be done. Even though your intention is just to revive a fish each CO would interpret and lay charges as HE saw fit. I know 3 CO's that have said they would lay the charge and one who wouldn't say he wouldn't. However they are spread so thin the chances of getting caught are remote.

Edited by horsehunter 1/27/2013 11:21 AM