Mountain Dew For Your Fish?

[motoman]

Not to play devils advocate........but what's to say those fish getting soda/pop poured over/in them would not have survived anyway?

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Good link there moguy.

[Champ188]

Donna fished as a co-angler with Jacob Powroznik a few years back in the FLW at Beaver and he treated a bleeder by pouring granulated Rejuvenade (livewell treatment) down its throat. Worked like a charm, so we've done the same a few times since then with similar results. Jacob told her that something in it works as a clotting agent to stop the bleeding.

[jmes]

I caught a big female 6.47lbs in the gills last year early in the morning on a WW around 7.30 and she was bleeding pretty bad. So I did the Mt Dew thing and she made it all day until weighin. I watch her swim away and I've been a believer ever since. I to have her about the Rejuvenate but have never tried it

[Sore Thumbs]

I need to learn more about fish care. Really want to learn how to fizz a bass that comes from deep water.

[Nitro 750]

Thanks for the response. I learned something new today, that doesn't happen everyday!!! It is amazing what you can learn on this site!!!

[gitnby]

It doesn't work!

When I was MUCH younger, I used to buy the big liter bottles of Mountain Dew, drink about 8 oz or so and re-fill the bottle with Everclear and put it back in the fridge to have it ready for to take to a college party.

One night I stumbled a bit on the way back to the dorm, fell on my face in the parking lot, and bled all over my shirt.

I did survive, but the Mountain Dew did NOT stop the bleeding!

[bfishn]

It doesn't work!

When I was MUCH younger, I used to buy the big liter bottles of Mountain Dew, drink about 8 oz or so and re-fill the bottle with Everclear and put it back in the fridge to have it ready for to take to a college party.

One night I stumbled a bit on the way back to the dorm, fell on my face in the parking lot, and bled all over my shirt.

I did survive, but the Mountain Dew did NOT stop the bleeding!

You can blame that on the package ads we saw on Dew bottles when we were young and impressionable....

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I've been tickling my innards with Dew for 50 yrs, I ain't dead yet. Might be a different story if I poured it down my lungs though.

[bfishn]

I've always been told that fish bleed less in water, but had never actually pursued the matter for details. I just did, and learned that fish have less than 1/4 of the blood per mass as mammals to start with. Their blood coagulates in water about 2/3 of the time it takes in air, or about 30 seconds in water. I found no serious study on the application of anything to the gills (except anesthetics which are absorbed rapidly there), so I think focusing on getting a bleeder back in the water asap would do the fish more good than dinking around playing Dr Goerbels on it.