Quote Originally Posted by Moveon View Post
If you are catching your fish in deep water there may not be much you can do to keep them alive. Fish coming up too quickly form the deep may die unless you get them back down into the deep water quickly. You can't take a fish out of that environment and depressurize it without some adverse effects on the fish.

If you did the same thing to a scuba diver you would have to decompress him/her or they could die from the Bends.

If you don't know how to properly fizz a fish you shouldn't be allowed to fish deep in the summer...Bringing them up from deep causes their swim bladder to overly inflate and they can't keep theirself upright, which will cause them to die...I wasn't a firm believer in fizzing a fish until I saw it actually work on a fish we caught in a tournament....Then a few times during the summer we've came in after a tournament has gone and there will be fish laying on their side on top of the water kicking around unable to go back down....We will ALWAYS take time to stop and fizz these fish and 95% of the time they will go back down....They may not all live but atleast they have a fighting chance...They're guaranteed not to live floating on top of the water