It is absolute bull….that a live bluefish would swallow ice cubes in a cooler. It is bul….that a bluefish, being jammed into a cooler headfirst would be forced to swallow an ice cube, either alive or dead. The gullets of even the largest bass and blues is a muscle, and a tight closed structure… either when the fish is alive or when dead and rigor mortis sets in.

That an experienced fisherman would state these hypotheticals as explanation for ice cubes in a fish gullet impugnes him.