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Location: Minnesota | i was just wondering
if i go out fishing catch some fish for a meal drain my live well then fill it up with watter i brought from home would this be wrong i just dont like cleaning fish if they are dried out from a long drive home i was just wondering if i could get away with doing this or would i be asking for trubbel if i was stoped |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
You would be asking for trouble if you did that. It is illegal and no conservation officer would ever buy your story...
That is one of the nice things about fish cleaning stations, or carrying your own cutting board. Do it when you get off the lake, dispose of/bury the remains, and you are all set. Plus...you are not carrying any extra weight in your boat.
Steve |
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| Last spring I was checking in boats at the landing on the chain where we have a cottage. I couple of guys came in after an early morning of fishing for crappies (before the musky opener). They had kept enough crappies for a couple meals in their live well. But when they were trailered they took the fish from the live well and put them in a cooler containing ice they had in the back of the truck. Said that once they became aware of the issue of transporting invasives via live well water they starting doing that. It preserved the fish well, and they could drain and dry their live well.
I always wondered if they came back for musky at a later date. They had one hit a crappie they were bringing to the boat and had two others follow their little rubber jigs to the boat. |
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Location: N.FIB | fishing the wis river and got off the water and dnr was right there checking,dnr called it a dead well once the boat was on the trailer.anything in your dead well |
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| I would bring them home on ice. They will stay plenty fresh on the drive home. That's the way we transport fish on the water on Lac Suel. The have to be dead,so we thump them and put them in a cooler with about 5 # of ice in it. If they stay cold they will clean up very nicely. |
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| Depending on how far of a drive we have put ours in a cooler with ice or had them packed with dry ice |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | +3 on a cooler with ice. In fact I'd just fill your livewell with ice and throw them in like that. The ice will also firm up the fish a little making them a little easier to clean IMOP. |
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| And in MN at least you would be in violation and would get a citation if checked for having water in the livewell while on the road. |
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| I had a boat called THE DEADWELL I always put the fish on ice. |
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