Zabidah (US)

 I went out redfishing the flats the other day and I had set my bait trap near a muddy bottem salt creek with weeds around it. In my county in the winter time the baitfish move offshore and into the brackish rivers and the creek chubs / mud minnows become the primary baitfish in the flats. I check my baitrap and its full of them so I put them in my bait bucket they're a very hardy fish and will stay alive in a bucket of water all day without an airrater.

As my day is ending around 4pm I go to hook one of them but theyre very slick and he slips from my hand and onto the bottem of my aluminum boat I had a little water in the boat so he swam under the seat through the crevice for water drainage. So hes under my seat somewhere so I figured I'd find him later or my boat might stink for a week or two. I looked for him a coupel times but didn't see him he was undder the seat somehwere.

So I load the boat up on the ramp later that day , pull the plug and let the water drain out still no sign of the baitfish.

I pull into my driveway with the boat and truck it's dark out so I figured I'd clean the boat out the next day.

So today I go out there about 1pm the next day after I lost the fish and low and behold the baitfish is in the back of the boat I pick him up to throw him into the words and he wiggles like crazy. Somehow he stayed alive with no water all that time. It rained but the boat plug was pulled so no water stayed in the boat.

So I bring him inside and throw him in my freshwater tank , I only have sucker fish alive in it because when I cleaned the tank last month all the fish died afterwards. He starts swimmign around I added salt crystals for freshwater tanks which make it into somewhat brackish.

I named him lucky and he is happily eating freeze dried krill and swimmign around like crazy in my tank.

It's an amazing neato story and do not realize how he stayed alive for almost 24 hours of no or barely any water.