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Also Chris,
Let's keep in touch about the Elk and Sixes this year. I plan on being down there a lot. It would be fun to fish the mouth or do a drift together sometime. Also, I haven't forgotten about the Chanty's.
We've done 3 and 4 day trips ocean fishing for silvers and kept em on ice the whole time plus an extra day for the trip home. But we always put our salmon in thick water tight plastic bags tied off so they are not sitting in the water. Drain water every night and add more ice to replace the melted stuff.
Same here back in the day. But, available, I'd also use 'dry ice' just don't put it/fish in contact. For that I took a chrome covered shoe stand (kind you'd use in your closet) and put the packs of DI on top of that. Two 5# blocks last a very long time.
A fish finder? How cool is that? Where do you put the battery?
We, my wife and I, take a seal a meal..vacuum packer along with us. I usally fillet the fish, hand it off to my wife and she vacum packs it. It then goes into the cooler full of ice. The rest of the fish goes for crab bait. We like to get it into a freezer by about the third day. The vacuum packing give you more room for fish in the cooler, and in the freezer.