George, that's what the problem is - Overtons isn't up here!

Cecil, I got LMB from the same place, 6"-8", 25 per bag and the drive was only 15 minutes longer than yours. ALL the fish were belly up on the bottom of the bags, mouths open, and where their gill flaps come together at the underside of the fish it was colored blue. The supplier (you know who) had me run to the local store and put 4" of ice on the bottom of each 5 gal bucket, then the bags with fish/O2 went on top of the ice.

The fish were stiff like boards. I slowly warmed up the water, and bent the fish back and forth to get them limber. 110 of 125 uprighted themselves and after 1/2 hr in a cage swimming around I released them into the pond. They swam off, but I have no idea if they actually survived - I will know more in the next few days.

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