keep your fish in a 5 gallon bucket with water in it while on the ice, you can splash water into a bucket using your scooper, then keep the fish alive in the bucket till you get home=way better meat quality not slime fillets and the skining part is not a mess like once the fish have been frozen, i have kept the fish in a 5 gallon bucket of water until the next day and they were still kickin in there, thats how i do it......