My cooler on the boat usually doesn't have room for fish till about two thirds of the way through the trip.
What I meant earlier was before you catch them, LMB spend a lot of time in warm water instead of traveling to deeper cooler holes like a BC or WE. but I do tend to try to cool them off quickly after filleting, any fish or any type of meat for that matter, theres something about gettin the body heat out of meat quickly that I prefer, always been fussy about. I got a friend that will go fishing and toss his fish in a cooler livewell thing and half of them will be stiff before he gets around to filleting them. that turns my stomach.
