The Big M 12-12-2014

[Quillback]

Got out yesterday and did some fishing, my back has been bugging me lately, but it held up fairly well yesterday and I was able to get some fishing in.

Tough day, I managed 1/2 dozen with a few decent fish, some came from back in coves and a couple of main lake fish. One jerk bait bass, one deep on a Rapala ice fishing jig, and the rest on a PB&J Ned rig.

The one fish I caught on the Rapala came from 40 feet down, it was a 12" spot, the fishes innards were coming out of it's throat, I imagine because of the rapid pressure change. For you guys that regularly catch these deep fish - is that what usually happens when you catch them deep? If it does happen, what do you do to fix it?

A couple of bass that came out of the same spot off a steep bank back in a cove, one of them has the winter black spots going.

[rps]

I do not regularly fish 40 feet. However, I have had the bladder in throat occur as shallow as 25 feet.

[GNSfishing]

You need to fizz em, that is done by deflating their air bladder using a needle. If you don't know how I'm sure you can find the methods on this board and/or on the internet.

[rps]

You need to fizz em, that is done by deflating their air bladder using a needle. If you don't know how I'm sure you can find the methods on this board and/or on the internet.

I started to write about fizzing but realized QB had that knowledge. There was a long intelligent discussion about fizzing on this board a couple of years ago. Look at this tool and the through mouth method.

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Bends_Mender_Deflator_Needle/descpage-BMDNP.html

[Quillback]

I guess I should look into one of those fizzers - or just not fish really deep.

[GNSfishing]

You can go to any farm store and pickup a syringe with needle will work great....

[merc1997 Bo]

if you put the fish immediately back in the water, it will swim right back down and will be fine. the reason i know this is because we used to pin bass and let them go. makes it much easier to keep up with a school. we have done with lots of bass that we caught 70' plus. went and fished elsewhere came back, caught more bass around the pinned one. pulled up the pinned bass, and they will be just as good as the first time you caught them. you do have to let them go immediately.

bo

[Jerry Rapp]

if you put the fish immediately back in the water, it will swim right back down and will be fine. the reason i know this is because we used to pin bass and let them go. makes it much easier to keep up with a school. we have done with lots of bass that we caught 70' plus. went and fished elsewhere came back, caught more bass around the pinned one. pulled up the pinned bass, and they will be just as good as the first time you caught them. you do have to let them go immediately.

bo

interesting. Would this be legal in a tournament? That thought just popped into my feeble mind while reading your thread just after reading about the DQ at the BASS Team thing at DeGray.

[Ham]

I choose not to fish >40 FOW because of that problem.

[Guest]

You caught a bass deeper than 75% of most bass fishermen will ever catch in their life.

I've caught them down to 46ft slap on the bottom, I'm dragging a 3/4oz football with a tiny brush hog trailer.

Fizzing is common in tournaments, but its not the way I would target fish. Usually fishing that deep is a last resort when its tough out.

I like to drop them nose first to get a good dive going, that does the trick on occasion

You can put it on a drop shot with a heavy weight & try to "send" him back down, then pop it loose when he starts to swim

If all else fails, just fillet that dude especially if its a 12" spot. It beats leaving a dead floater