Quote Originally Posted by crappiepappy View Post
I read the same thing from his post, with the tip-off being his asking about how to store them with no cooler available.

Personally, I wouldn't bleed them out unless I had a container of some sort to store them in, even if it was nothing more than a 5gal bucket. And I probably wouldn't even do it, then ... unless I had ice available. Putting them on a stringer or in a bucket or sack and transporting them home (alive) would probably be a better idea IMHO.

Unless you were intending on cleaning & cooking those catfish right away, bleeding them out shouldn't be necessary. Once bled out, the fish would die ... and the meat would start to deteriorate.

... pappy
That is a good point pappy. If keeping them alive is not doable then putting the whole fish on ice as soon as possible after they were caught would be an alternative.