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rickstr66 · 01-06-2005, 03:05 PM

Tyler, I post a study as well and direct you to a post by , not just a biologest, but a NH fish and game biologest that states the Bass in Winni are doing fine. In your post about 3 years of decline followed by 3 year rise, I have 2 points. 1 the three year rise was the last 3 years . Indicating a fishery getting better. In the last 2 years you call a decline in went down by .01.......Hardly a decline at all. Infact you would have to call that a statistical tie. So I read that as a 2 year decline followed by a 1 year remaining the same followed by 3 years of improvment. Your comments on what to do to improve tournaments..... Some sound great, some not so great. I Love the barbless hook idea, but dont limit it to artificials only. make the weekend anglers using live bait do it too. Live bait is far more likely to be swallowed by bass. Im not saying plastics arn't. I for one always crush my barbs when carolina rig fishing..... even in tournaments. I vote no for tournament hour reduction. 6 or 8 hours... no big difference. If a fish is in a livewell 6 hours... is 8 hours a big difference? Im under the opinion that once a bass is in a properly run and oxygenated livewell, he gets acustomed to his enviorment fairly quickly. the key to a fishes survival is proper use of a livewell which I am all for. The livewells were built to keep 10 bass alive and well. when done correctly 8 can survive fine. No touornaments from May 15- June 15 is fine with me. I dont think you see a lot of tournaments from ice out till may 15 and from june 15 to the 30th anyway. Mortality studies..... Yes. Livewell chemicals.... yes. I use them all the time anyway. Oxygen injection... not needed If livewells run on a timer or constantly. Most club lever tournaments usually have their members keep their fish in their livewells till its time to weigh them in. At most there are 2-3 people in line. I agree for all "open " style tournamenst pre weigh in tanks and release boats to be used. dead fish penalty...... Not sure on that one. Its a great idea but sometimes a fish will die even if you do all you can. I remember fishing squam about 5 years ago. It was in July. I hooked a fish in 15' of water, got it to the boat. It was hooked right on the side of the mouth perfectally. Hook came out without a problem. Put the fish in the livewell. It was dead 2 minutes later. To this day I dont know what happened to it.. If youy wantr to increase it fine but not to 5lbs. a 1lb penalty sounds right to me. many a tournament place is decided by ounces not lbs. I still believe the vast majority of guys take great care to keep their fish alive. here is one I will add of my own. Drop the number of fish allowed to be taken out of the lake to bring home from 5 to 2 per day. There is a guy who parks his boat at allocoya beach every weekend, drops 5 crayfish down to the bottom and puts 5 three pound smallies in his freezer dozens of times. I have seen him there almost everytime I fish the lake.

01-06-2005, 03:05 PM	#57
rickstr66 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Boston, Ma Posts: 63 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Tyler, I post a study as well and direct you to a post by , not just a biologest, but a NH fish and game biologest that states the Bass in Winni are doing fine. In your post about 3 years of decline followed by 3 year rise, I have 2 points. 1 the three year rise was the last 3 years . Indicating a fishery getting better. In the last 2 years you call a decline in went down by .01.......Hardly a decline at all. Infact you would have to call that a statistical tie. So I read that as a 2 year decline followed by a 1 year remaining the same followed by 3 years of improvment. Your comments on what to do to improve tournaments..... Some sound great, some not so great. I Love the barbless hook idea, but dont limit it to artificials only. make the weekend anglers using live bait do it too. Live bait is far more likely to be swallowed by bass. Im not saying plastics arn't. I for one always crush my barbs when carolina rig fishing..... even in tournaments. I vote no for tournament hour reduction. 6 or 8 hours... no big difference. If a fish is in a livewell 6 hours... is 8 hours a big difference? Im under the opinion that once a bass is in a properly run and oxygenated livewell, he gets acustomed to his enviorment fairly quickly. the key to a fishes survival is proper use of a livewell which I am all for. The livewells were built to keep 10 bass alive and well. when done correctly 8 can survive fine. No touornaments from May 15- June 15 is fine with me. I dont think you see a lot of tournaments from ice out till may 15 and from june 15 to the 30th anyway. Mortality studies..... Yes. Livewell chemicals.... yes. I use them all the time anyway. Oxygen injection... not needed If livewells run on a timer or constantly. Most club lever tournaments usually have their members keep their fish in their livewells till its time to weigh them in. At most there are 2-3 people in line. I agree for all "open " style tournamenst pre weigh in tanks and release boats to be used. dead fish penalty...... Not sure on that one. Its a great idea but sometimes a fish will die even if you do all you can. I remember fishing squam about 5 years ago. It was in July. I hooked a fish in 15' of water, got it to the boat. It was hooked right on the side of the mouth perfectally. Hook came out without a problem. Put the fish in the livewell. It was dead 2 minutes later. To this day I dont know what happened to it.. If youy wantr to increase it fine but not to 5lbs. a 1lb penalty sounds right to me. many a tournament place is decided by ounces not lbs. I still believe the vast majority of guys take great care to keep their fish alive. here is one I will add of my own. Drop the number of fish allowed to be taken out of the lake to bring home from 5 to 2 per day. There is a guy who parks his boat at allocoya beach every weekend, drops 5 crayfish down to the bottom and puts 5 three pound smallies in his freezer dozens of times. I have seen him there almost everytime I fish the lake. Last edited by webmaster; 01-07-2005 at 11:10 PM.