RE: NANFA-L-- fish transportation

Crail, Todd (tcrail-in-UTNet.UToledo.Edu)
Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:18:15 -0400

Peter,

You had to make me go to the garage, didn't you? ;)P

I use a bunch of different ones. The biggest I have is a Coleman Marine 60
qt. I've got Little Oscars and generic Coleman ones too. Anyway, the big
daddy is the upper limit of what I can handle by myself. At 2/3's full, I
don't have any problems, and it's about 10 gallons of water sloshing around
back there. The seine and boots end up getting things wet... Not the coolers.

You could always put down a tarp, or wrap it in a tarp as well ;)

And I've liked Jim's idea of adding the Amquel. I keep a small bottle of it
in my gear in case I have something happen where it's more turbid or nasty as
I go along, and don't want to put fine particle strain on the fish if I can
avoid it. But I'm not going to bother using a product when I can just change
water. Usually cools them down some as it may be.

Todd
The Coleman Madness, Toledo, OH
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
http://www.farmertodd.com

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From: owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org on behalf of Peter Unmack
Sent: Sun 8/13/2006 5:12 PM
To: nanfa-l
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- fish transportation

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Sinclair wrote:

> I've been using standard 52 quart Coleman cooler chests for
> at least a decade. (At least I think they're the 52 quart size.)
<snip>
> I fill the chests about 2/3 full, and haven't had any serious problems
> with water sloshing out, although I do try to stay mindful of the risk,
> so try to avoid hard acceleration, braking, etc.

So you get a little leakage with these coolers, but not too much? When we
fill ours up everything on the floor ends up pretty wet (but that is full
to nearly the brim).

No one seemed to have any suggestions about coolers that don't seem to
leak. Has anyone found a good way to avoid leakage? Obviously if they
are less full, then there is less chance of leakage. I was thinking
certain coolers might be a little better than others perhaps.

Thanks
Peter Unmack
Provo River, Utah
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