[toadfish]

Mark, I got tired of mine always getting full of crap like leaves, fish guts, etc so I took a saws-all electric saw and cut the thing completely out. As you know, bilge access in that boat is next to none, now I can get into the bilge and really see what is going on. It makes it easy to clean out the bilge and do bilge maintenance, etc. I am in the process of re-glassing the original hatch hole and putting in about an 18" by 12" sealable deck hatch so the deck will be water-tight but still offer bilge access. I know that may sound pretty extreme, but the in-deck live-well wasn't very useful. Oh yeah, now I just use an above deck livewell....Toadfish