Went fishing from sun up to sun down one day. Got an awful sunburn, but we caught a (lake) catfish before coming home. Too tired and too sunburned to skin it, so we left it in the cooler with about a cup of water in the whole cooler.
Expected dead catfish the next morning, but nope. It lived. So we felt sorry for it and put it back in the lake. (And then we went fishing for the day. lol)