I was on the water, taking pictures, and one boat called me over to say that both of their fish were not going to make it. I asked if they fizzed them, and they assured me that they had. Well, I then asked if they were floating on their side. The answer was yes. Well obviously, they had not fizzed them enough, or needed to again. I told them to do it again, and they did. Well, they had all fish alive at the weigh in, and thanked me for the advice. And the fish looked good, unlike when I had seen them before. I am sorry to here that fish were dead before it went into the livewell, but that would have happened winter fishing then anyway. There were a total of 51 fish caught, with 7 dead at weigh-in. Could some of those been avoided? Who knows. Were they big fish that were killed, mostly not. It was too bad that the percentage was 13.7 mortality, but does that mean we don't fish in the winter at all? Just trying to get some opinions on the subject, as I do value everyones opinion. At what time in the year do we say that the chances for a fish kill may be too high for a tournament? Summertime on Riffe can have the same results, as some of the fish come from very deep water, and we have seen the consequences of it before, as some of the HOT summer tournaments over at Potholes. JMO Brian
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