30 Gallon Live well DIY 

Coolest DIY I've seen in a while. After losing MOST of my blue back herring this weekend on a striper outing, I'll be making one of these for my kayak.. I don't need to hold catch, just keep bait alive and lively. Thanks for the idea and inspiration brother!

I just built this, costed roughly 100 dollars. Waiting for the cement to dry before I test it out! Thanks for the awesome DIY.

Great DIY....no problem moving water around with that kind of flow....That will make 4 some Frisky Baits....Thanks 4 sharing!!

Had to circle back to this video. Great concept. Think I might need this in my life.

All your videos make me want to get outside and start building stuff!! 😂

hey dude great vid i know its 4 years later but i made one of those and it was awesome thank you so much!

Love that. Love your channel. I’m a landscaper/irrigation tech. Just assemble your pump, white and clear pvc assembly prior to installation. Makes things a lot easier. Looking forward to more videos. Thx. Paul

Really nice setup, I love your DIY projects.

Thanks for spreading the word about the Tournament.👍🇺🇸

Just watched This video at the exact time. I'm needing a live well for our boat, because the one that was installed years ago has gave up the Ghost. Thanks.

This is my favorite site to look up DIY projects. I like the information and how it is given. I am doing some of the products

I'm late seeing this but great DIY. I needed this because I live far away from my bait shop and this will help to keep minnow's for whenever I'm ready to go fishing. Thank you

I've made many types of live wells over the years including the spray bar ones. But my favorite is simpler and actually works better. Get a small bilge pump with the strainer intake on the bottom. Next get a piece of perhaps two inch thick styrofoam eight or more inches in diameter. Cut a hole through the middle just a shade larger than the pump intake. Tywrap the pump to the styrofoam with the strainer in the hole. Fill the ice chest with water and toss the pump in under the styrofoam. Yes the pump is upside down. Wire it and turn it on. It'll quickly foam the water with far more air than any spray bar will manage and circulate the hell out of the water. I've overcrowed a live well with shrimp and fished the entire day in summer heat and never lost a single shrimp. Another plus is the strainer is on the top and doesn't get stopped up with shrimp shells and such.

Great DIY Fishin N Stuff need to make one like that to keep my bait in.

quick and easy. something i might have to do eventually

This is my favorite site for DIY projects, and I am in process of building some. This is a great site and I am crafting some projects now. Keep up the great work my friend.

Man I'm glade I found your channel definitely built my rod holder for my truck lol

Another great DIY thanks for sharing

Your builds are GREAT I really enjoy watching and making some of them awesome DIY

Nice simple project. Love it!

When you push the wires through, leave them about the thickness of the cooler on the inside then slather with silicone & pull into place. It will help get more sealant on the inside in case it ever tries to leak. After it's in place then put your bead of silicone around the inside and beat around the outside that way you're hopefully one hundred percent covered.

Made mine today worked great

Great video gonna have to make one myself.

Now I can change that complicated mess I created LOL. Pretty slick, thanks.

Have you ever considered making a portable cooler livewell using standard boat livewell tech? Most DIY builds simply recirculate the water in the cooler & provide some aeration, but I'd LOVE to see one that pulls in cooler lake water from a hose & allows overflow drainage. Ideally, the inlet hose would be long enough to pull from a depth to reach cool water, not just the top where the boat's hull sits.

Got my bubble box today. Gonna make a minnow well... I will find a cooler at the thrift store, thanks for the idea. I might look into making 1 of these for the back of my truck. If I do catch a big 1 I wanna keep him alive until I get home.

Goodbstuff as usual bud...thanks again

Who don't love a good DIY? Good luck on the fishing tournament/ challenge my friend.

Great DIY project. Just built one w/ a 48 quart to hold my tinker mackeral so I can catch the big ones! Haven't used yet but I'm thinking the bait will last for a 5 or 6 he fishing trip. Thanks for sharing!

Great video, I plan on doing something similar! Thanks and Fish on!

Very nice and not too complex. Great video

I love your background music.

Nice

Thanks, I will defiantly be giving this DIY a try SOON!!!!! This is going to make crappie fishing so much better especially on those days when you only catch a couple and want to turn em loose. Also, since I'm going to be doing some RU-vid tournaments with a couple buddies of mine, this is going to make it so much easier to get quality footage, and weigh-ins. Thanks again, keep up the great videos. Best DIY videos on RU-vid hands down!!!!!

I could watch your videos all day !!!! All great ideas, you use your hand held grinder with cut off wheels alot my only thing id like to see different I can sum up with two words "WORK GLOVES"those discs are pretty hard hands LOL

Outstanding!

Great diy.

This is cool just might do this I don’t have a boat so I use 5 gallon buckets but for what I do this would be way better

That's deff a awesome build and idea my man I'm going to have to make one soon

That is awesome!!!!!! Thanks

Everyone have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving

Well done

I love the use PVC pipe are used some three-quarter inch PVC pipe in my garden I’ll bring it down the rows and then drill some holes in it and then went to Lowe’s and got some sprinkler heads that go in the tube in the small black tubing and I am stuck them in the PVC pipe and then get me a hose fitting and stuck in the end well I made it like a teaThat way I had only one fitting to make her use and I hook the hose up do it the garden hose turned it on and it misted the garden really good and then at nighttime I can go out there and turn it on for about 30 minutes and let it finally missed the garden and they did a great job

Now that's a cool project. Thanks for sharing and have a great Thanksgiving !!!!

Sweet now a need a boat to put it in . But what i would like is to buy a fish in stuff decal

Nice!

Freaking awesome. 👍👍👍

Thats pretty cool! Should do one with a LED light built into the top. But the trick is to have it angled at the water when you open the top. For night fishing.

Nice job man.

Best diy livewell video on RU-vid. Thanks alot man, will definitely be using this in the next month.

👍🏼 #20...... Sweet, another goodern..... Big cat fish tourney..... I'll fish the crappie tourney???LOL

This is actually really cool!

I really do look enjoy your channel I watch it all the time unlike you I am a fabricator two are used to be a custom cabinet maker but right now I am retired due to a massive stroke which I have survived and hope to get back into it one day again but I would really like to get together with you on some of these things a week in the really tweak them and make things a whole lot better and easier to make

if you ever do a DIY with a cooler or any other thin plastic container again, you should try kayak rivets instead of screws. they will hold a ton more weight with zero chance of stripping out. great vid man.

Like 31. Great my friend 👍👍

Yes Indeed my brother .. Thats what I'm talking about .. Man I love stuff like that. I was thinking of doing something like that but never did it lol. But this year I started using a small cooler for my minnows ...they last alot longer. Brother you are very very creative!!! Great Video!! Cant wait til the next one seriously.

Niced to hear my accent. But don't glue the end cap on; use silicone. Much easier to clean fish scales out of the holes. Great videos.

Great video man. I may just try this for myself. Happy thanksgiving!

Oh yeah, how do you fill it up on the boat? I have been there and done that with these. You ether have to keep a separate pump and hose setup to fill it up with or leave enough hose on the well pump can pitch out of the boat and into the water so you can fill the well. Filling them any other way sucks and/or can cause an accident.

@Fishin N Stuff, I built my own live well using your video as a guide and it is awesome- thank you! I have a question about your battery practices 🔋 . Do you run your tank the whole time you’re fishing, or do you kill the power every so often? My knowledge on batteries isn’t much, and I fish typically all night for Cats, so I fear a dead battery is imminent if I ain’t smart with it. I power my live well with a kayak battery, FYI. I’d love your advice/input along with any other fans of yours who happen to read this comment.

fish will need hearing aids after being in there for awhile. lol

I'd give that 2 thumbs up, if I could! Make one from a really big round cooler and use the pump to circulate the water?

It would be an improvement to hook up with a timer switch and also a water inlet, exit setup. Obviously this will have to be a fixed install. You can get cooler guards for the cooler to keep it in place while motoring. Just a suggestion

Cant wait to see you tomorrow

Immediately subbed just off the name

We made one them Fu years back bought the pump of my buddy that owns bottom dwellers tack

You need two thumbs up buttons for this video!

Man, that is one of the coolest DIY’s I’ve seen. I want one. Expect to see one on my channel next summer! Lol. Great work sir, Happy Thanksgiving and good luck in the tourney!

Dude that is freakin awesome nicely done looks so professional!!! Happy thanksgiving to ya eat and sleep a lot!

Looks like it will work.I have a 40 gal in my boat, I think it will work fine just for one 40 lb cats....

Looks cool! how do you keep it from overflowing?

Very nice but if it's powered by a heavy 12 volt car battery It would be to much to carry out on the pier. In a boat, yes.

I have to say I have no intrest in making any kind of water tank. But I watch your video because you are a very very intresting guy you make your videos very intresting and enjoyable because you are very intresting and enjoyable to watch you are a genius. Another great video. You don't even need any music in the background because your videos are so intresting. You have a great channel and I really enjoy your video. Ps I know you're not scared. LOL

Man nice video keep it up

Dang that's nice! I could've saved you a ton of money by telling you my secret though. .39c stringer hung over the side! 😜

Ok the stainless screws are useless when the straps aren't stainless. Just saying....I WILL be making one of these for cut bait for our camping trip. #catching savannahriverflatheads

Damn this guy does some awesome videos. I a subbing right now

Nice job man, That will come in real handy in the future to. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and much respect!

I am going do this one to

We make them with 55 gallon barrels for shad

Makes me want to rush out and make a live well....and buy a boat.....and an outboard.....and....

Hey buddy love your videos, I wish you’d leave a parts list down in the description for these tho. Either way tho strong work good stuff

How about a video on that nice looking birdhouse?

New subscriber here. Great DIY. I was wondering if you get trash caught in the PVC pipe? I was thinking if you used threaded couplings for the inlet and end cap you could take it apart and clean it much easier. Keep up the good work!

May i suggest using rubber seals to plug the hole up instead of using whatever it was you used that might poison the water you can get those rubber plugs that allow the wire to still feed thru but it still plugs it up. Also if that pumps anything like mine may want to wrap a sock around it with some mesh so it don't suck up junk,and feed it thru the spray bar and clog the holes

Good video sorry for not commenting lately I took a break from RU-vid but I’m back now and will be staying active I uploaded a video after 9 months of not uploading

Give this man $40 and two weeks, he'll build you a wooden mercadies.

Perfect Live Well except for all that weight to empty Out needs another pump to pump it out back into the lake or wherever But not a problem for ya

Thanks brother, great video, New Sub here!!!

Been doing this since 1975. The pump will heat the water & deplete the oxygen level. Gonna need to ice it periodically.

You need to filter the water pump will pickup trash from bottom and stop up the holes

Being on the bottom I wonder if the pump gets that slime built up in it slowing it down. I always mount mine a little off the bottom

What about 2 pumps, 1 over the side to bring in fresh water and one in the cooler that pumps it back into the lake?

To drain, use the drain already on it!!! Goes right out the back drain of ur boat!!!

How do you fill it up! I would go one step further and hook up a pump with a hose feeding the cooler then connect a hose where the drain is to drain the water!

can you make a smaller version of this as a bait bucket? I like that pump much better than using those bubblers with the stones any advise?

This is badass! Curious if you can install a bubbler with the bubbling stone strip instead of a water pump like that? Is this better than a bubbler because of the size of the tank?

Should of put a level on the pipe. Makes me itch

That’s all some

I made my livewell out of a truck bed tool box.