Fizzing Video

[nomolites]

My MO has been to stick around a bit if I have a floater; if it won't recover in a reasonable time frame it gets recovered to float in hot oil.  Personally, I have seen this more with crappie than with any other species.....

Mike

[mojorig]

Yes, there has been research done on fizzing of bass. Texas has done some research on this. Here is a link the article ( http://tpwmagazine.com/archive/2011/aug/scout1_bassfizzing/ ). At the bottom is a youtube video that shows a dissected bass and where the needles goes.

Like nomolites said and was also mentioned in the attached article, if the fish is released immediately, the fish could swim back. However sometimes that doesn't happen.

When we work winter tournaments,  we usually have to fizz over 20 or 30 fish. Most would not survive, if we didn't. Some will be eating by birds and other will die due to stress. We have had guys tell us their fish needed to be fizzed and were caught first thing in the morning.

Also there are other methods to deflate the airbladder if the fish is released immediately. However, as you all know, we don't always have that luxury in tournaments.

[fishinwrench]

WelI maybe someday we'll start scoring all (or most) of these "tournaments" in a better way.  

The whole "I can catch 1lb.2oz. more fish than you can today......but probably not tomorrow" thing is getting stupider to me every year that I keep breathing.

[mojorig]

I agree I'm not a big fan of watching how many 1 pounder can someone catch on TV today.