Submitted by GITTHENET

Date Fished: 6/26/2009
Water Temperature: N/a
Water Clarity: 0

Guys, this is a response I posted earlier and thought it was worth of it's own posting. It is not a fishing report but is of most importance.

I've read in BASS recently a technique that will significantly improve the survival rate for fish when a hook penetrates a gill. And, I've actually applied the technique a couple times and each time the fish survived / lived. Both times, I hooked the fish through the bottom of the tongue into a gill. As you can imagine, when I removed the hook the fish began to bleed profusely. If you will poor soda / Pepsi / Coke and especially a citrus soda / Mountain Dew into the fishes mount over the bleeding gill, the bleeding will stop immediately. I had a fish bleed out within 30 minutes earlier this year in a NBC and it died in the live well. The next two times this happened, I poured Pepsi over the bleeding gill and the bleeding stopped immediately and both fished lived through the weigh in a swam off. The acid in the soda will seal the bleeding immediately. Try it, you won't believe it!

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