How do you keep your fish alive during a tournament till weigh in ? Especially in this heat !!!
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How do you keep your fish alive during a tournament till weigh in ? Especially in this heat !!!
At the MS. C.c Fruit Jar tourneys you can weigh in dead or alive.
You can't! That is why there generally aren't any tournaments in August, except for our fruit jar tournaments, and they don't have to be alive for those tournaments. Most tournament schedules run from October through May or June.
Ice bottles and oxygen.
Satdoc1, What's the best way to create oxygen ? Air stone and a pump ?
We have an oxygen set up on the live wells. It consists of an O2 bottle and regulator. Pumps straight O2 in the livewell but it is still hard to keep them alive in this heat. We have also tried to poke a hole in the fish to let the air out of the bladder and helps sometimes.
Torch, do you put an air stone on the end of the line ? Also where did you get that set up ?
Satdoc bought it online. Google it. It has a stone on one end of line.
Its a special oxygen diffusing stone Sweetwater Aquatic or Eco systems.
In order of effectiveness:
1) 02 injection
2) Cooling water with Ice - Calms the fish and cool water absorbs O2 more readily.
3) Livewell additive - tried some Tournament Ice the other day. Worked good, but haven't made up my mind 100% yet.
4) Fizzing or weighting fish caught deep will help as well.
In a perfect world, you'd have 02 injected into a livewell that is on recirc with no new water coming in and drop ice bottles in there occassionally to lower the temp by about 10 degrees. Add 1/3 to 1/2 fresh water every 3 hours since amonia will build as the fish breath and waste is deposited. In addition, add an additive of your choice. If your fish are coming out of deep water, then fizzing their air bladder will help them survive or weighting their anal fin with clip on weights to keep them upright until their air bladder deflates.
Wannabe...
Thanks all of you for the help
CCM
Koolwell.com and oxygen have not lost a fish since i installed both.Got oxygen system from Keep alive.com
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Originally Posted by CAPP
Can you use a medical oxygen set up fishing tournaments? Was told no but just curious.
You can use an medical set-up but your oxyger level will eventually get to high and the fish will die. You will also use a bottle up real quick. Go to a welding supply store andtell them you want a regulator that puts out 30 ???. That will give you good oxygen rate. If you don't mind spending the money, check out Showdowntackle.com. He sells a good set-up. I have built a water cool-down system but not ready for fishing tournaments yet. I took a 48 qt. cooler and put a A/C coil in the bottom and copper lines running out the side connected to a minnow bucket prayer. Fill the cooler with ice and have the water from the live well running through it. Keeps the water around 64-66 degrees.
I can't believe that I'm going to help the ole boy out, but Minner has a web adress on his signoff.
tournamentice.com or net or something.
At first I thought he was the tourna-mentice
This endorsement calls for 1 free lunch. Hold the crust
Empty, does this stuff work? I went to the website. Do you still need to use oxygen ?
charger boats has something interesting for this, they have a patented Pro-Air system that recirculates livewell water through lines that run in the cooler of the boat that cools the water down to help keep fish alive
I haven't used it, so I personally can't vouch. Minner must be sleepingQuote:
Originally Posted by cockrumcrappieman
or has hot wing sauce on his finger and cant type.Quote:
Originally Posted by EmptyStringer
wonder if the oxygenator and an areator would do the same as a oxygen system?
cockrum...did awful good on some minnows with ice for me back 3 weeks ago. Good results on some fish in the livewell the following week too. I can't swear by it, but I can't find fault with it either.
Wannabe...
Never any trouble keepin ONE fish alive but thats all WB ever catches! Just sayin.
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Originally Posted by satdoc1
Something I have found that works great is ice cold bottled water. I'm not why but I believe that not only does it cool the water down but I think it puts more oxygen and nutrients in the water. I kept a 5 gallon bucket full of minnows alive for a week just by putting a bottle of water in it everyday.
can get whole kit from slabmasterbaits.com.
They are not on the web site, but they keep them in stock. Bottle, diffuser, and waterproof regulator. Been playing with mine this summer, and have only lost 1 fish, and he was hooked deep. The jury is still out, but Im starting to become a believer
Has anybody used "catch and release" ? it says for bass and walleye, but i wonder why it would work on crappie.
Use the u2 formula from oxygenator and re-cir. water, dont take on new water.