Quote Originally Posted by kc View Post
Why they have tournaments this time of year I will never understand. The big fish are the ones that die the easiest. I was fishing late last weekend and took one over 5. I wanted to weigh it and get a picture so being careful after I hand landed it and quickly un-hooked it I put it in the live well to get her back in the water and let her settle down for a few. Five minutes or so later I took her out, weighed her, took one quick picture and she was going belly up when I put her back. I worked with her for a bit reviving her and she finally swam on down. I think she will be OK but if she were held in a livewell for any time at all (tournament) she would have died and another quality fish would be gone. Summer time tournaments are bad, bad news!!!

kc
I totally agree with you but the department doesn't have the balls to address this problem and OH it is a problem. We'll get beat up for saying this kc so hang on it's coming.