Well thinks for all the comments, Yall truely helped me decide cause I was leaning toward a carpeted deck that just kinda set in/on what is already there. Figure weather permiting I am gonna lanch the boat tomorrow with the front deck out and add some weight up there to try and figure out what the max amount of weight I want to add. So been thinking about this whole live well thing and just happen to see one at lunch in the BPS master catalog. Anybody ever use one of these jon boat livewells? looks like its fairly easy and would be swappable from boat to boat, Which would be nice when I take the nephews fishing from pontoon. Kinda spendy though. https://www.basspro.com/TohoRig-Livewell/product/883/-217890 May just keep looking, I could do the whole build and a live well cooler cheaper then that I would guess. Planing on getting started this weekend so if anyone has a ideal about livewells speak your peace cause I could sure use it. Thanks ahead of time and I'll keep yall posted.