Thread: What Caused the Fish

I would say the heat.
Get one of these things, check the temp of the well water and the fish as soon as it's caught.
Non-Contact Infrared Thermometer with Laser Targeting

Heat was not the issue, it werent hot. As far as what it was I dont have a clue, what few we caught stayed in good shape in the livewell with the pump running constant.

Can't figure it out!!! Know it was not the heat we frozen water bottles in livewell it was only the larger fish we had problems with (15 - 16)fish.the 13-14 in fish was fine.

The few we caught did fine.

It was hot here. The little bit I did, I was soaked with sweat.
" "pump running constant" "
Did you have air pumped in too?

Dirty live well.
While working at Capt. Bilbo's I had to maintain the live lobster tank. If one died and not removed in a few minutes I had to do a complete water change, clean the tank and filters. Labor and supplies for a water change was over $200.

Yep areator running constant, mid 80s aint hot, mid to upper 90s is hot. Water temps were around 80 and a little over as the day went on, water temp in the livewell around 70 or so.

Hard to say with such a small sample of fish. . But ours didn't act right from the get go and went straight to cool water with straight o2 from a bottle to them. All of them wanted to keel over from the get go and came out of 5-7' of water. Not deep by any stretch. Surface temp was 85 on the lake...warm, but not hot. ???


Wannabe...

We had no problems keeping fish alive. We use one of the blue cube coolers on wheels with O2 set at 1/16th. On tournament days we attached clips to the fish to help them stay upright but on Thursday we kept 12 fish alive in the cooler withour the clips.