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Fish Boxs
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Captains Cat
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Ross,
I use a large Rubbermaid cooler (120qt I think). It is an older model that isn't made anymore but makes a great fishbox. I only use this system for daytrips fishing (too large for cruising). While fishing I like to keep it in the middle of the cockpit. The size leaves just enough room to get around it on all sides. Leaving room for someone fighting a fish to cross aft of the fishbox is a big advantage. The person clearing the downriggers can squeeze across forward and handle the net. It looks way too big at first but with a little practice you can get around it. Another advantage-in rough water if you lose your balance anywhere in the cockpit you will come to rest sitting on the fishbox-could be a lot worse. It will also hold a couple of limits of very large salmon and even a few halibut if they don't go more than 40-45#. If you plan to fish and cruise I haven't found a good way to keep a cruising cooler and a fishbox(of any size)-it's just too crowded.
I use a large Rubbermaid cooler (120qt I think). It is an older model that isn't made anymore but makes a great fishbox. I only use this system for daytrips fishing (too large for cruising). While fishing I like to keep it in the middle of the cockpit. The size leaves just enough room to get around it on all sides. Leaving room for someone fighting a fish to cross aft of the fishbox is a big advantage. The person clearing the downriggers can squeeze across forward and handle the net. It looks way too big at first but with a little practice you can get around it. Another advantage-in rough water if you lose your balance anywhere in the cockpit you will come to rest sitting on the fishbox-could be a lot worse. It will also hold a couple of limits of very large salmon and even a few halibut if they don't go more than 40-45#. If you plan to fish and cruise I haven't found a good way to keep a cruising cooler and a fishbox(of any size)-it's just too crowded.
Ted Osborne
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We keep a cooler on the boat and keep bagged ice in it. It is placed on the bunk (keep something under it to prevent what sweat that might come thru) and when fish are caught the cooler is placed on the aft deck and the fish are iced down after they are bled. Then the cooler goes back on the bunk.
CAVU":vysdccme said:Ross,
I use a large Rubbermaid cooler (120qt I think)...... If you plan to fish and cruise I haven't found a good way to keep a cruising cooler and a fishbox(of any size)-it's just too crowded.
Ken- I know you said you liked the cooler in the center of the cockit, but here's an idea that might work for you or some others:
Having the cooler at the aft end of the cockpit is inconvenient to some folks, but if you can raise it up off the floor so that the front of your shoes can go underneath it, this removes some of the akwardness of having it there, as some other C-Brats have found out before.
To accomodate two coolers, one could build a framework that would hold the lower cooler off the floor far enough to accomodate your shoes, as above, and then hold the second cooler over the top of the first with enough clearance between the two to open the lid of the lower one 8-10 inches or more.
This would allow you to stack two matched coolers up, the one with the greatest weight on the bottom, and the other one on top.
The frame would have to be mounted to the floor as well as the engine well's forward panel, and the top of the upper cooler could be made into a bait cutting board or whatever one needed since it was at waist height.
These two coolers would also be forward enough so that they would not be in the way when tilting the motor(s) forward.
Don't know if this would work for you, but it might for some.
Joe.
Brooks Cooper
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I built one in my splash well that works pretty well, check out the photo's on coops cruiser. Brooks