Live well fishing and using the ballast pumps?

[Darrell]

Has anyone used the ballast pumps to support a livewell on the boats? I have a live well that I bring on board with me when fishing. With current setup and a CC boat it works well using the raw water washdown to continuously fill and rinse the live well and keep the fish alive.

I've been thinking that using a diverter valve and another length of tubing off the ballast fill line might be a good substitute to this approach. THe pumps have there own controls, and if I put in a diverter valve that I can direct to either the live well, or the ballast, then it should theoretically work! or are the ballast pumps too high of a flow?

 

[Julian]

I've wondered about this too. I know very little about bait fish and how to keep them alive. But I do recall my brother saying that you can kill pinfish if the current is too strong.

https://zombait.com/blogs/stories/tips-to-keeping-lively-live-bait