richg99
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Fishing in a local lake tournament yesterday, I had a ten-inch bass squirt out from my hand. She hit the deck and zipped promptly UNDER my stern bench seat. We tried to slip something under the seat to remove the fish, but, we didn't have anything long, flat, and with a big hook on it. Turns out that nothing would have helped.
Fishing continued and our new piscatorial passenger apparently died under the seat.
Getting home, I crawled down onto the decking and shined a flashlight beam under the seat. NO fish! I could barely get my flat hand under the seat front, and found that the false floor stopped about four inches back. There, the area simply dropped off.
I assume that the fish now is somewhere in the lower hull. There is no access behind the stern battery compartment, without some major work, if at all.
There isn't any way to get to the area in question without taking my side console off, and then drilling out dozens of rivets. Even if I were so inclined, I can't really figure out how to remove the false floor without a major project. That isn't going to happen. I am not going to dismantle my entire boat to get an already dead fish.
Luckily, I keep the boat outside, at a boat yard, far from other people. The fish smell will, finally, disappear. I wonder how long that will take????
Any ideas, thoughts, and just plain stupid comments solicited, here-in.
Ha Ha richg99
Fishing continued and our new piscatorial passenger apparently died under the seat.
Getting home, I crawled down onto the decking and shined a flashlight beam under the seat. NO fish! I could barely get my flat hand under the seat front, and found that the false floor stopped about four inches back. There, the area simply dropped off.
I assume that the fish now is somewhere in the lower hull. There is no access behind the stern battery compartment, without some major work, if at all.
There isn't any way to get to the area in question without taking my side console off, and then drilling out dozens of rivets. Even if I were so inclined, I can't really figure out how to remove the false floor without a major project. That isn't going to happen. I am not going to dismantle my entire boat to get an already dead fish.
Luckily, I keep the boat outside, at a boat yard, far from other people. The fish smell will, finally, disappear. I wonder how long that will take????
Any ideas, thoughts, and just plain stupid comments solicited, here-in.
Ha Ha richg99