Look at the number of tournaments held on high rock in the last 5 years. It's a better fishery now than it has been in the last five years...Originally Posted by Riccochet
Look at the number of tournaments held on high rock in the last 5 years. It's a better fishery now than it has been in the last five years...
Hope this post makes it so People will read. With the dead fish issue at High Rock. This happening is not isolated to just High Rock it happens every lake everywhere. I Believe if boaters can not manage their catch in their boat's live wells when fishing a lake for a time period os 7-8 hours of a day they shouldn't be allowed to fish at all. That said Hyco lake has recognized the heat and its effect on Bass kept in live wells of boats in those hot summer days. They do not allow organised Bass Tournaments at the ramp during those hat days of Summer.
When I fished as a co angler I was amazed at some boaters would only fill the livewell tha barely covered the fishes back and never ran their recirc or airiator. Some people don’t have a clue.
Hate me if you want, I'm a meat fisherman that loves fried bass...SB...
2006 Ranger 188 VX with 150 E TEC and I EAT BASS!!!
Your point being, what? That you care more about the missed ounces that cost you or your friends a check than the dead fish piling up? That's how your post came across to me. Everyone looses a fish from time to time. A 79 boat field losing 100+ fish is ridiculous. I could care less about who cashes a check or doesn't at that point.
A few dead fish for a large tournament is a given. Enough to fill 3 coolers is excessive and needs to be addressed. Those fish aren't going to be eaten, like the bridge fishermen are doing. They're a waste so someone can cash a check.
Those fish are actually donated to charity to be eaten. That’s why they put them in coolers, not trash bags.
Last edited by Pirate360v; 06-12-2018 at 04:11 PM.
If that is the case they don't make it known anywhere on their website. You'd think an organization making a charitable food donation would make it known.
Actually......I do care. It's my home lake and I'm very happy to see it showing it out again after several down years. There were a lot of dead fish. Only thing that makes sense to me......a lot of fish spawned late this year because of the cold spring and just haven't fully recovered yet. I filled my livewell up at my first spot,added G Juice and ran my recirculator all day. I even laid a towell over my livewell lids and kept it wet all day to keep the temp down. I had 10 fish in my box......and neither me nor my co angler had any problems. Matter of fact.....they got us wet when we were trying to get them out so we could weigh them.
I can assure you, they do. Did you have any dead fish?
I think you pretty much nailed it , was not a fizzing issue
One dead fish per angler is not EXCESSIVE, for this time of year. Sad, not EXCESSIVE. I had one die almost instantly due to hooked in the gill with a topwater plug. Not even immediate release was going to save it.
What would you call excessive
Agree with this
Well I just couldn't stay out of this one. For all you guys against tournament fishing without tournament fishing you would have anything to catch. Tournament fishing has done for the any lake than every other idea combined. The way I see it if I wasn't tournament fishing I would just keep a limit for everybody on my boat everyday I go out an take them home and eat them. I promise I would be keeping more fish at the end of the year than every fish that dies in every tournament held in entire state of NC. Last time I checked the legal limit for Bass is 5 per person so if everyone at the tournament kept them and took them to Lake Crisco it would be fine with me.
Just because you cant catch them in the summer doesn't mean stop the tournament's.
Well said. Not to mention the impact tournament anglers have spending money in local communities around Tournament time.
All of those fish are eaten. I know because I have helped clean them before. Sounds like you are the one that doesn't know what is going on?
I just wish they would put more than a week between these big early summer events. Feel like it puts a lot of undue pressure on fish trying to recover from the spawning cycle
Steve Dyer
Mt. Pleasant, NC
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Pass the hot sauce please
Not only do I doubt that, but I'm going to call 100% bullshit on it right now. They were not harvested commercially, there is no way to know what chemicals someone put in the livewell that those fish were stewing in for whoever knows how long, nor any way to tell how long a fish has been dead and not properly stored for consumption. There is ZERO percent chance any food bank would be legally allowed to accept those fish as edible.
