Stringers?

[wagdog]

I use a basket as well. TubeDude showed me and BigFishTaco how to rig up a fish basket with a swimming noodle and zip ties. Easy. Effective. Holds lots o' fish. I agree with what has been said about keeping that sucker away from your craft. I've never had a problem with a basket of bluegill or whitebass sticking a spine into my tube but I'm sure I'll get lucky one day. I use TubeDude's method (snapping off their spines with a good pair of pliers or side cutters) for taming catfish you are going to keep. Those things do swim around and move the floating fish basket quite a bit so the odds of them bumping into your craft with a spine could be higher.
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