BCB has always had the largest livewells in the business. It is only a matter of time till someone might give them a niche we have had for decades. Of course this is one boat and we dont honestly know what the livewell holds below the overflow. We have had many boat companies list capacities in the past of 50 gallons in range. In reality none ever have been 50 gallon wells. Our reference always been to imagine a 55 gallon drum of water sitting on the back deck. Which is why BCB never listed their capacity. While these have always been the largest, they never were 50 gallons and neither were others when measured properly. Over 10 years ago Bass & Walleye magazine was going to run an article, from data collected at the Classic, on fish conservation and the livewell capacities. The writer started with us in speaking and then drifted around asking capacities. We informed him we would not print the actual livewell capacity because all others were inaccurate, they either were wrong or included that air space above the overflow. Areas where the water would never fill. They came back with some capacities of 42, 50, 35 gallon and etc. He was informed of water per cubic foot, how to measure that area and calculate the actual capacity. After measuring one of the more popular boats and a budget value model with semi accurate and inaccurate listings, he determined that the spread in accuracy was huge. The project was side tracked because it would raise a red flag on a problem and most every boat on the market had less water than those regulatory agencies and biologists felt was necessary for conservation. No matter whether one livewell in one boat model is larger than all other livewells or not, there are a bunch of livewells on way more popular boats than this that are still substandard. There have been dozens of boats that never addressed this prior other than BCB. It takes room from storage, sumps for fuel tanks and you have to get creative to address the wells and storage concerns. The 1975 XL I had a livewell that most of you could actually curl up in, there is a middle ground on reasonable and not enough. BCB
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