dead bass

[Champ188]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

I have to admit I would not have taken them home if I was in Moguy's shoes.  Large bass are nasty in my opinion as table fare, especially if they have been belly up in near 90 degree water for a while.  But, the guy who caught them should have taken them home, or at least disposed of them somewhere away from the ramp, I hate it when you get to a ramp and there's a bunch of dead, stinky fish smelling up the place. 

I was assuming they were still alive, even if only barely. I would not take home someone else's dead fish. On the rare occasion that Donna and I have killed a legal bass in the catching process, we will ice it down immediately and take it home. 

[moguy1973]

7 hours ago, Champ188 said:

Hope you took them home for dinner, moguy.

I was just leaving to go out to fish.  If I was just coming in for the day I would have disposed of them.

[Champ188]

1 minute ago, moguy1973 said:

I was just leaving to go out to fish.  If I was just coming in for the day I would have disposed of them.

Yeah, hard to do anything with them in that case. Shame that some folks just don't seem to give a flip. Too bad the warden wasn't around to cite him for wanton waste of fish/game.

[slowbait]

Smithville Steve, I am so glad you are a saint. Never killed a fish. But, do you cut down a apple tree because there are a few bad apples in the tree? Yes there are some bad tourney fisherman, but there also some bad pleaser fisherman that kill fish.

[DADAKOTA]

I hate seeing dead LMB. Tourney anglers need to take care of their fish.    With that said, I'd imagine that more bass die every day from being gut hooked on soft plastics like senkos and/or by being reeled in too fast after being caught in deep water than are killed by tourney anglers.

[Quillback]

We all accidentally kill fish whether tourney fishing or pleasure fishing.  the point is, we need to take care of the fish best we can and if there are dead fish floating around the ramp then someone didn't do a good job.  Could of been a tourney fisherman, could've been a fun fisher that brought them in for a glory shot. 

We're all in this together chasing green and brown fish, and we should do our best to take care of fish so we can all catch them again. 

[slowbait]

Well said Quillback. 

[bassfisher]

21 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

I don't event want to get into how many I saw that didn't look good when I left a tourney the other day.  The people who ran the tourney did great with all the tanks set up.  But it amazed me the the fish in my little tracker live well swam off happy as could be, and I guarantee I had the smallest live well out of everybody. I even had a smallie in the box at 6:15 a.m. and he was so pissed at weigh in we couldn't hardly catch him..   A couple frozen milk jugs and g-juice is all It takes, even in the hot part of the day the water in my well was much cooler to the touch than the lake water....... I guess im saying if I can keep them alive, these 70K boats that have much nicer bigger live wells and oxygenators shouldn't have an issue. Comes down to poor fish care

Gotta love those trackers I bought a new one

[MoCarp]

LMB virus will raise its ugly head again..you can count on it

[Sprint21fter]

I happened upon a 3 lb smallie that had been brought up to quick I quickly pulled out my needle to fizz him.  Insert under the crusher, hold fish under water, watch bubbles until they stop fish was as good as new.