i personally use a fish basket all of open water season. i like cleaning my fish as fresh as possible. i remember 1 time seeing my 1 fishing buddy keeping sheepshead in a 5 gal. pail in 90 degree weather. he had 6 in the pail all bloated and floating in the boiling water flies all over them.i said hey joe what you gonna do with them? he said take them home and eat them!!!!!! YUMMY!!!!! YUCK!!!!!!!