12-19-2007, 02:20 AM
[cool][#0000ff]To tell the truth, I have never been a big fan of jabbing a needle in the side of a fish. Too many other organs you could hit...to the fish's detriment.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have always fizzed from the front, as suggested in the [url "http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/columns/story?page=b_col_bt_1106_fizzing_procedure"]LINK TO FIZZING[/url]. In fact, I have even just used a sharp point of a knife for perch, and I have caught the same perch a couple of times after that none the worse for wear.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I know the bassers are going to make a lot of noise about this, but the truth is that it is not as much of a mystery as they would like to think it it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The other thing you can do is rig up a weight with a dull hook (paper clip wire) and hook the suffering fish lightly enough to be able to wiggle it loose after you lower it back down far enough that it repressurizes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Other guys talk about blood chemistry changes. Hey, that is what the bends are all about. And, humans survive if they are put in a pressure chamber and allowed to reabsorb the gasses in their blood stream. The key is to get the fish back down into the deep and not let it thrash on the surface until Heathcliff the Seagull finds it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have always fizzed from the front, as suggested in the [url "http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/columns/story?page=b_col_bt_1106_fizzing_procedure"]LINK TO FIZZING[/url]. In fact, I have even just used a sharp point of a knife for perch, and I have caught the same perch a couple of times after that none the worse for wear.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I know the bassers are going to make a lot of noise about this, but the truth is that it is not as much of a mystery as they would like to think it it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The other thing you can do is rig up a weight with a dull hook (paper clip wire) and hook the suffering fish lightly enough to be able to wiggle it loose after you lower it back down far enough that it repressurizes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Other guys talk about blood chemistry changes. Hey, that is what the bends are all about. And, humans survive if they are put in a pressure chamber and allowed to reabsorb the gasses in their blood stream. The key is to get the fish back down into the deep and not let it thrash on the surface until Heathcliff the Seagull finds it.[/#0000ff]
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