Thread: Weigh in.

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Bird down and his partner, Porter, proving they can run with the big dogs.

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Originally Posted by crappiejim

Watching the weigh in today. I don’t tournament fish but i have never heard of so mAny fish dying before weigh in. What would likely be the reason. I know the water may be hot but

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several areas of the lake had scum floating and bad surface water. When these guys filled there wells they kept that same bad water recirculating all day. Kinda like taking water below the thermacline and filling your well with it. The fish don’t stand a chance in that water. Although I didn’t loose any fish I do believe that’s why several guys lost there fish. If your fish start getting stressed and rolling over it’s not a bad idea to refill the live well and cool your water down.

We lost a lot of fish. Lost every fish and started over 4 times Saturday.
Never seen it happen like that before. At one time I was convinced that my livewells has been sabotaged.
Water temp was good, had release me, fizzed the fish, even have oxygen in my livewells.. still lost fish.
Tried every thing I knew and after talking to others that lost fish seems we all tried all the same things.
All I could figure was it was like Jeremy said.. the scum on the water.
So.. I called a friend of mine that fishes on the Tennessee river chain lakes and catches big stringers of bass during the hottest months at real deep depths and asked him what he does hoping to learn something different.

From talking to him I concluded it was the quality of water.

He said he always finds the cleanest water on the lake during the summer months or fills his livewells even if it takes running to get water before he starts fishing. He said he does not fizz the fish unless he has to. He prefers to clip weight on them and fizz them last resort.
Uses G juice and keep water 65-68 degrees

He went on to say even if he’s fishing earlier in the year on a shad spawn he has to collect water elsewhere other than where he’s fishing the shad spawn at. He said it’s Something about that crap that floats on the water in shad spawn areas will kill them also.




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I lost one 2lb fish. I stuck him in the gills and he bled out. I came to the weigh in with 11 fish in the live well . Battery on our scales went down and I had to borrow some scales to cull my fish. Oxygen really helps ! I fished up 3 lbs of minnows the second day. I caught a bunch of fish


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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

More than one team did that, got to be alive when you present them to the tourney officials. Small fish simple simon, big fish is a whole nother deal, big time. Been practicing all summer and got it down pretty good but you never know, it was bad hot today, hottest day I have fishing this summer I think

Strangest day of my life on day 2. Lost all 7 of our fish in 30 minutes and the smaller fish died first. I still don’t know what happened to them. I’ve never lost a live tourney fish before.


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Originally Posted by Dee F

We lost a lot of fish. Lost every fish and started over 4 times Saturday.
Never seen it happen like that before. At one time I was convinced that my livewells has been sabotaged.
Water temp was good, had release me, fizzed the fish, even have oxygen in my livewells.. still lost fish.
Tried every thing I knew and after talking to others that lost fish seems we all tried all the same things.
All I could figure was it was like Jeremy said.. the scum on the water.
So.. I called a friend of mine that fishes on the Tennessee river chain lakes and catches big stringers of bass during the hottest months at real deep depths and asked him what he does hoping to learn something different.

From talking to him I concluded it was the quality of water.

He said he always finds the cleanest water on the lake during the summer months or fills his livewells even if it takes running to get water before he starts fishing. He said he does not fizz the fish unless he has to. He prefers to clip weight on them and fizz them last resort.
Uses G juice and keep water 65-68 degrees

He went on to say even if he’s fishing earlier in the year on a shad spawn he has to collect water elsewhere other than where he’s fishing the shad spawn at. He said it’s Something about that crap that floats on the water in shad spawn areas will kill them also.




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If your using please release me we use to lose fish when we used it.Now we use g juice and have alot better luck

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