MTV - How to easily fix and prevent a clogged head intake line

How can you stop small fish to seek refuge in your intake thru-hull connecting to your head? If you stay at anchor or mooring for a long time … especially if your bottom anti-fouling paint is not effective anymore … chances are quite high that soon or later … and repeatedly, you might suck in that fish all the way into your toilet pump cylinder … Smelly and blocking the water intake so you will have to close your seacock, take the pump apart and clean it from fish debris .. not very fun and time consuming! The first thing you can do is to install a small mesh filter online so it is easier and quicker to open and get the fish out but if that is difficult to do (poor access to filter or your filter might leak if opening and closing too often, you could stop anything (fish/debris) from even entering your intake line. In this video, I show how to build & install easily & inexpensively a small filter to do just that. If you do not find a small piece of SS mesh, you could also use mesh in plastic … If you have a scuba tank and a air nozzle it is actually quite easier and quick to disconnect the intake water hose from the pump and blow some air burst to reverse anything anywhere in the system as you see in the video. Filmed in 2020.