Forced Swinning Effects on Smallmouths

[thebassman30]

I usually use heavy braid, and winch the fish in pretty quickly.

Later,

Geo

This is putting it lightly. lol

[Bobby Headrick]

Wonder when some one will develop a livewell formula that has these chems in it so to replace them in the fish and thus a speedy recovery, wish I had the chem knowledge. Good topic, probally is the same in all species.

[Duayne]

The process is the same, but the affect is different from species to species. While SM are stressed for longer periods in warm water, stripers, for instance, lose all ability to move, sink to the bottom and die.
They attempted to use a tuna tube with stripers. The idea was to put the fish in a tube with constent water flow and body support. They hoped to oxygenate the fish by flushing large amounts of water through the gills. I think the end results were mixed to poor at best. I'm not sure if they ever tried salt water with the tube, but that is the direction I would go if it were me. Salt water holds more desolved oxygen and stripers are salt water fish. I think that is a big part of the difference between the affects of these two species in the first place.
The good news for SM: They do not get to this point.
The only thing I can think of would be to place them in an oxygen injected tank at a very slightly cooler temp. Very dangerous. There are oxygen tablets, but I don't know how well they work.

Of course the very best thing is to wench them in as fast as possible and get them back in the water as quickly as possible.

[Bonefish]

Maybe we should place a hyperbaric chamber in our boats to improve recovery time. That would do it.