The instant you realize the Hybrids you harvested....

[GeoFisher]

ARE STILL IN THE LIVE WELL......a week later.

There are not too many things that will make me puke...THAT DID......What a disgusting, disgusting mess.

[waterdog101]

ARE STILL IN THE LIVE WELL......a week later.

There are not too many things that will make me puke...THAT DID......What a disgusting, disgusting mess.

I can't ever remember forgetting keeper size fish in the live well, but I have used a live well for a bait tank, and forgot shad in it after fishing all night. and a dead fish is a dead fish...

[GeoFisher]

I can't ever remember forgetting keeper size fish in the live well, but I have used a live well for a bait tank, and forgot shad in it after fishing all night. and a dead fish is a dead fish...

Yea, first time I've EVER done it.

We decided to not keep them, so I reached in and pulled the plug.....I caught all of them but one, and figured I'd let the water drain to make it easier, and then throw it out at the ramp........

I forgot.......

Man that ***** BALLS.........

And smells horrid.

[stripernut1]

A particular guide service I used to work for had 6 full time guides. We would wear rain jackets to throw the cast net each morning so we wouldnt be covered in scales and soaking wet when customers arrived. Every so often i would "find" a dead shad in the pocket of my rain jacket and i just wrote it off as sheer dumb luck that a shad would accidentally "fall" in to my pocket. But i realized after some time it only happened on the last day before i was planning to take a couple days off...a rain jacket in a 110 degree locker with a dead shad in the pocket is nuclear waste.
yes i did get my revenge, a slightly opened box of corn flakes left overnight in the floor of a boat + the herd of mischevious racoons that roam the docks at night at jtown make a mess that cant be cleaned up

but yes Geo, i can relate to your disgust with the forgotten fish....its horrible

[sweetwater]

In college my sorority sisters and I used to put dead fish in cheap zip lock bags and hide it under the car seats of rival sorority members. In two or three days the bag will swell up and blow out the seal.

[roadrunner]

In college my sorority sisters and I used to put dead fish in cheap zip lock bags and hide it under the car seats of rival sorority members. In two or three days the bag will swell up and blow out the seal.

All I can say Sweetwater I wouldn't want you mad at me.

[GeoFisher]

In college my sorority sisters and I used to put dead fish in cheap zip lock bags and hide it under the car seats of rival sorority members. In two or three days the bag will swell up and blow out the seal.

Man, that is brutal.........

I bet it was pretty bad too, based on my personal experience....

[Tyme2fish]

About as bad as when Knute(The Heathen) and onemorecast56 left a whole bunch of shad in my live-well when they borrowed my boat to go to Dale Hollow.

I had to the pull the boat out of the boat barn and rinse the well out with bleach and water. All the shad had liquefied.

[peter]

Been there with the week old gizzards and whatever in the Livewell. I think it's worse when the water is in there too.

The amazing thing is is how well those live well lids seal up the smell. Once you open it though... It's probably the worst smell there is.

[Devils Horse]

I feel for you guys. Rotten dead fish may be the single worst smell there is.

Some of y'all (Sweetwater) are some cold-hearted folks.

A few winters ago I wanted to save a couple of dozen shiners after fishing Dale, so I left them in a livewell full of water. Figured, with the cold weather most would keep till I could get back out there the following weekend. The weather went on a 2 week Arctic binge, and I was left with a giant shiner popsicle in my boat. Not nice. Not nice at all.

[Dobe Mejuwa]

Worst for me was 4 dozen night crawlers left in the drivers bench seat of a pontoon that sat uncovered in July for 3 weeks before found. Our neighborhood raccoon found them, I found the worms when I chased the coon off

[Dobe Mejuwa]

A particular guide service I used to work for had 6 full time guides. We would wear rain jackets to throw the cast net each morning so we wouldnt be covered in scales and soaking wet when customers arrived. Every so often i would "find" a dead shad in the pocket of my rain jacket and i just wrote it off as sheer dumb luck that a shad would accidentally "fall" in to my pocket. But i realized after some time it only happened on the last day before i was planning to take a couple days off...a rain jacket in a 110 degree locker with a dead shad in the pocket is nuclear waste.
yes i did get my revenge, a slightly opened box of corn flakes left overnight in the floor of a boat + the herd of mischevious racoons that roam the docks at night at jtown make a mess that cant be cleaned up

but yes Geo, i can relate to your disgust with the forgotten fish....its horrible

Oh! The old " are you glad to see me or is that a shad in your pocket " routine 🐟