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| Lets say its middle of summer, and extremely hot, you get a big fish, you handle her professionally, but she just wont swim off. What do you do? I've heard of people actually diving under the water getting to cooler water. Would you do this? What about a livewell full of ice water?
Thanks
MJB | |
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| What kind of shock would that be ? If the fish wasn't dead that would do it. [:((] | |
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| You might want to try taking her out to deeper water and torpedoing her down, staying there to make sure that she didn't come back up. Putting her in ice water is just going to shock her even more. A livewell with cool water maybe, not cold water. | |
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| Torpedo her down, try to revive her again and again....put her in a cool water livewell. If that doesn't work, looks like you have dinner for the night. Had it happen to me last year, on a lake with a 54" limit, to say the least, the fish wasn't close to 54".....and had to let her float, it stunk, but I guess it happens.
Slamr
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| Here's what I've found that works best with hot water releases. I find that holding the fish by the tail at the surface, and doing what you have been told to do for years (pull the fish back and forth) doesn't seem to make the fish very happy. I've seen reports that pulling a fish backwards in the water has the same effect as drowning the fish. If you pull a fish backwards the gill filiments collapse and the fish can't breath.
I've had my best luck with a good push downward. This gets the fish swimming in the right direction. It also get the fish out of the hot surface temperatures, and gets it to start to paddle again. I've had fish that if you simply released them on the surface they would roll belly up. If you would give them a good hard shove toward cooler water they would start to swim and once they hit the cooler water they would not reappear, even after
watching and waiting for a long period of time. If the fish are having some sort of problem with a pressure change (deep water to shallow water) the same thing seems to help them adjust, a hard shove (not torpedoing) to cooler deeper water seems to by the best thing I can do.
DO NOT TAKE THE FISH TO SHORE AND STAND IN THE WATER, AND TAKE PHOTOS WITH THE FISH IN VERY SHALLOW, HOT WATER, AND THEN TRY TO RELEASE THIS FISH IN SHALLOW, HOT WATER. THIS IS A SURE FISH KILLER.
Doug Johnson | |
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| I agree with Doug. I catch quite a few out if deep water on jigs, and find that his suggestions really are on the mark.[:0] | |
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