Fish bleeding and gutting bin

[bigeasy1]

Originally Posted by keith

Hi Bigeasy. Very impressive setup you have. I see you have an i/o too. I will keep your design in mind if the rail doesn't work out. How did you mount it to the ice chest? Do you have a picture of that? I bleed and gut our salmon then put them in the box, which is a mess. We are not allowed to fillet a salmon on the boat here.

Keith,originally I had glued some velcro to the top of the cooler and bottom of the cutting board,but as it turned out,it wasn't really needed.It doesn't slide at all.depending how rough it gets,I'll throw a piece of that inexpensive black non skid mat that's used in tool boxes on the top of the cooler,it works great to keep the board from moving.
The cooler on top of the motor box is a perfect height for the cutting board.Doesn't matter if you're left or right hand you can just turn the board around.
I made the cutting surface from some pretty thick polyethylene from an industrial/hospital laundry cart.(I don't throw anything away.)It's soft enough to protect the knives yet takes a beating.

Btw I spent my basic and AIT training at Fort Ord in Monterey Ca. What a nice area.Always wanted to get further north to see the rest of the Pacific,someday maybe.