The largest issue on saving fish can be the actual maintenance of the livewells, spray bars and systems. The system will still have to be maintained, and we have not seen an increase in oxygen from our testing. Though we are doing a second round of tests soon. The Oxygenator also should be replaced every couple of years, and brushed clean occasionally or maintained. Which had maintenance occurred would often negate the need for one. Another thing with your bosss livewell is that a Ranger well is (Edited) about (Edited) gallons of actual water below the overflow, per side, when you measure the capacity. A Z520 is appx. (Edited), and depending on the actual location of the overflow they range from (Edited) gallons for both wells. Which is just over (Edited) per side. This includes models of (Edited) Ranger,(Edited). Most other livewells are in the 25 range, and while Skeeter wells are pretty square and short on length, they are mid 20 gallon. Puma wells are similar at just over 27 to 28 gallons, and Cougar FTD wells are 35+ or so on the capacity, or 17.5+ per side or more. If you use the matrix of 10 pounds per gallon, and realize that a 1 pound of fish relates to about 1.2 pounds of water space, (Edited) , per side. And we dont mean to trash any boat brands here! You folks know how hard we work to prevent that. Things fly across both bows and we dont want to have anyone swinging at us. We realize that none of the bass boat livewells have enough capacity, though we definitely average the largest wells. There is no feasible way we can carry enough water to accommodate some of the huge stringers with the 1 Fish to 1 Gallon ratio. BCBLast edited by Bass Cat Boats on June 23rd, 2008, 5:37 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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