Flip Clip

[Ram Jack Scott]

anyone try the flip clips yet? i read on their web sight that the flip clip is an alternate to fizzing your fish. if they don't work guess i just got hustled. emoTongue www.flipclipfishing.com

 

[team-d]

You first have to catch a fish deeper than 5 feet RJS emoPoke emoSmile

 

[Guest]

I survival of the fish is the goal, immediate release is your best bet.

If keeping them alive till weigh-in is your goal, then the fin clip will help. Hard to say if it helps more than fizzing. Both seem pretty destructive to long term survival to me.

 

[fishinvol]

R14 - 11/13/2008 4:56 PM I survival of the fish is the goal, immediate release is your best bet. If keeping them alive till weigh-in is your goal, then the fin clip will help. Hard to say if it helps more than fizzing. Both seem pretty destructive to long term survival to me.

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How in the world is a fin clip destructive to a fishes long term survival? emoScratch
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[Guest]

Let's see, first the fish has an overexpanded air bladder and the associtated problems, then you place a clip on a fin wearing off the protective slime coat and possible damaging the spines, then you drop it into a "live"well where oxygen content is reduced and could suffer shock from the water temperature difference and has high likelyhood of rubbing the walls, then you lift the fish out of the water for extended period of time to weight/take pictures, then the fish is again faces potential temperature shock as it is release at the ramp. By the way it still has to find its way back to a sheltered area before feeding resumes, often times travel back to the area of capture, which might be some distance. Delayed mortality rates approach 23% for non-gas bladder trauma bass, and I assume the rates are even higher (double to triple, IMO) for fish that have trauma from gas bladder overextension

 

[beetlespin]

Do they really swim back to the area they were caught? I'm not being a smart A? I have just always wondered where they go because they sure don't seem to stay by chester frost.

 

[Guest]

my understanding is quite a few do.

 

[craazyboutbass]

I've always wondered that, beetlespin. I'll tell you though, this summer I visited Warrior Al. to fish a Sat. morning TX at Lewis Smith Lake with my sisters boyfriends brother who loves fishing. That morning I fished much the way I do at Parksville, landed a largemouth about 2.5lbs. It was beat up really bad, we were thinking the bass was going for a crayfish and the crayfish chewed it up pretty bad. Anyways, the fish was released after the weigh in about 2 miles away from the spot. 2 weeks later, my buddy went a fished that same spot where it was landed and landed the same fish! Same exact markings, deformed mouth too. Also landed on the same bait... pretty cool

 

[craazyboutbass]

I have pulled several spotted bass out of 30ft water at Parksville and yes their bladder seems to inflate and they float up to the surface. What I've done is put the fish in my livewell and support the bass for about 3 - 4 minutes to where it is sitting in the livewell the way it is supposed to be and everytime I've tried it the fish ends up okay and doesn't float up again. Could this be the cure, or is it just spotted bass?

 

[beetlespin]

I think it is just about impossible to kill a ssspppaaaaattttt

 

[luv2fsh]

It is simple knife blade.