Dead fish during day tournaments

[bigrod]

Like said above, the anglers need to take care of their fish. You have to use ice in your livewells this time of year guys. Make sure you check on them every once in a while and add more ice throughout the day when water warms back up.

[bassman_ky]

We also weighed in dead fish this weekend at Barren. We stopped midday to buy ice at the state marina to make sure our fish were in good health. The dead fish we weighed in had a few gills broke where it inhaled a strike king series 6xd. Not much you can do with that. We tried our best to her going but couldn't. The rest of our fish swam off great.

[stratosjoe]

Hey Sarge , You have to catch and put'em in the livewell first......

[MsgMills]

Hey Sarge , You have to catch and put'em in the livewell first......

LOL...yeah you got me Joe...How ya been...Them jigs still workin out for ya....Still got some of that bear fur left over if you need more hair jigs.


Clyde

[Hershey102]

Not being a tournament fisherman, I have to wonder why you are permitted to weigh dead fish. Don't some tournaments only weigh live fish or at least assess a penalty? And wouldn't that put the onus on a few careless anglers to take better care of their catch? Just curious.

[keepersize]

I fished a Team Supreme tournament out of Deer Creek last Sat. and the tournament director shortened the tournament two hours to 1 pm just for this reason, no dead fish were weighed in, with this heat it was good to get off the water early for the anglers too.

[offdtop]

Please release me or rejuvinade goes a long way, and ice is a must - most pros carry at least 3 bags with them for their days catch.

[lroberts]

In addition to what you all have said....changing the water in the livewells a couple times throughout the day helps a lot too....just make sure to reapply the rejuvenate.

[broken pole]

I have been tourney fishing off and on for about 10yrs and have yet to weigh in a dead 1 either,but its going to probably get me one of these days.I also always keep plenty of frozen bottles in a separate cooler.What makes it even worse is the fish is no good to eat either because most of the time they are spoiled.I even put a ice bottle in my weigh bag while i am in line.In my 1st post I meant there was not much we could do about the heat.

[Rudypoo4444]

Do the tourney guys eat the dead bass they bring to the weigh-in?

[Get da Net]

Do the tourney guys eat the dead bass they bring to the weigh-in?

I think all tournaments, whether its small club or pros try to get all dead bass/ fish to someone , that will eat them if the fish happen to die during the tournament.

[brlfishing]

this is just a thought. but are some of the livewells in some of these boats outdated. i have a 08 triton boat and have never had to put ice in the livewell. just turning the livewell to timed after it has filled and then also putting on the recerc. button have never lost a fish. it seems like it just constantly exchanges lake water. just a thought, because have never lost a fish due to heat.