I had a bilge pump I use for pulling deep water in the summer to keep alewives alive in Tim's Ford. Best bait there is for Smallmouth, Walleye, and Striper/Hybrid. An 800 gph pump encased in styrofoam that I attach 30' of connectable 1/2 conduit to the bottom of to pull cool water with a section of garden hose attached to the top to throw in the live well. In the summer the alewives will die if you catch them and put them in water pumped off of the surface. This way, I can catch them at night in deeper water, and put them in my livewell and fish them deep the next day and they will be very lively. Off topic. Anyway, that pump was not making any headway, so Joe at the Marina went and got his gas powered pump and saved the day. He was our most dedicated trip planner and smallmouth fisherman. He was so distraught that day that he couldn't even bring himself to go in one of the other boats ( he spent the day going and getting and replacing the bad pump, draining water out of his gas, etc, etc.)
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