Thread: Keeping Fish Alive In Hot Weather

Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Cool water, weight clipped on the lower fin and keep fresh water going to em with some air pumping, simple simon. I found the fizzing to be a little much for us most of the time, fish coming from less than 20 foot deep didn't seem to need it, at least that was today.

Usually the ones we fizz you can tell they need it when you get them to the surface,they seem stunned and will lay on there side in the livewell.Usually 20fow or deeper is when we see it usually

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I know we have about wore this topic out but I did find the"long lost "info....
Ingenious invention keeps tourney fish alive

PAUL JOHNSON October 29, 2009 at 9:44am


Jim McKay shows off a nice live slab with a homemade ballast attached. Alligator clips with ¾-ounce weights attached worked great on stressed fish at Grenada.
Paul Johnson

The crappie fishing season - at least the crappie tournament fishing season - is in full swing. The last few years have brought more and more interest in fall crappie fishing. The tournament circuits have recognized this, and the two national circuits - Crappiemasters and Crappie USA - have moved their National Championship tourneys to the fall. The Mississippi-based Magnolia Crappie Club has shifted its tournament season, too. We now kick off our new season in October. And some of our best turnouts of competitors and some of our best catches of the year have come in the fall.
Crappiemasters held its 2009 National Championship event on Grenada Reservoir in late September this year. According to the organization, 253 teams from 25 states competed in the two-day event. Several Mississippi teams were entered, including several from MCC.
Although I qualified for the event this year, what I thought was going to be scheduling and other problems prevented me from entering. As it turned out, I could have made the event all along. So I wished my fellow MCC clubmates the best of luck, and forgot about it.
Forgot about it, that is, until a couple of them called me to say they were catching monster slabs pulling crankbaits during the practice days leading up to the actual T-Days. Catching monster Grenada crappie on crankbaits just doesn't get any better from where I sit......

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