Bleeding Bass Survival Rate

[Catch and Grease]

Just my luck.. After making a topic about release rates I'm fishing my pond and deep hook the biggest fish I've ever caught out of there. After easily removing the deep hook near his gill he started lightly bleeding so I hurried and sat him in the water and he darted away instantly...

What do you think the chances of him living are because I'd love to catch him again one day when he is twice the size!

I prefer to keep and cook bleeding bass because I hate seeing a dead bass wasted... I know the frying pan leads to zero percent survival lol

EDIT : I should have posted this in the already made thread but oh well...

[fisherrw]

ive had so expeireces like that.. i just cook the ones that bleed!

[Mccallister25]

Iv always heard that if the fish is bleeding, when you release it back into the water it stops it. Weather this is true, im not sure about.

[Catch and Grease]

Ive had bleeding fish belly up and die right in front of my eyes upon release but mostly the ones not bleeding too bad swim off and look golden. I'd just like to know how fast bass blood can clot up and stop bleeding, it seems like the very sensitive gills would bleed for awhile...

[Pz3]

I had a throat hook and was having some trouble getting it out (had to walk to the car to get some pliers)

Fish was out of the water maybe 5 minutes and bleeding a little. Right as I was on the way back to the water it froze up and died in my hands.

Hook came out easily but Ill take that one as a lesson. Get the fish back in the water as soon as possible.

[WRB]

Bass are cold blooded fish and don't have extra blood to loose. The amount of blood loss and the injured organ that caused the bool loss are important factors. Gill aracker are tough and can take some abuse without the bass dieing, if the blood is stopped quickly using Please Release Me directly to the injured gill racket. Do not pore soda of any kind in the basses mouth, that adds to the stress. If there is enough blood to run down the basses body, it will die!

Rule of thumb with bass out of water is about 1 minute or as long as you can hold your breath.

Tom

[jhoffman]

odd a lot of pros condone pouring sprite in their throat to stop bleeding

[WRB]

odd a lot of pros condone pouring sprite in their throat to stop bleeding

Agree they should condone it!

Tom

[Loop_Dad]

Bass are cold blooded fish and don't have extra blood to loose. The amount of blood loss and the injured organ that caused the bool loss are important factors. Gill aracker are tough and can take some abuse without the bass dieing, if the blood is stopped quickly using Please Release Me directly to the injured gill racket. Do not pore soda of any kind in the basses mouth, that adds to the stress. If there is enough blood to run down the basses body, it will die!

Rule of thumb with bass out of water is about 1 minute or as long as you can hold your breath.

Tom

 

Oh no. I might have let go of more diying bass than I thought.

[dustin11]

I was fishing a tournament and caught a 2.5 lb. smallmouth and it was hooked in the gills and blood ran down the length of the fish and got all over my boat. I poured half of a can of mellow yellow into it's mouth and put it in the livewell. I caught that fish around 8 A.M. and it was alive when we released it at 4 P.M. after weigh ins. Whether it is still alive or not, I don't know but it seemed healthy when it was released. 

[papajoe222]

How much blood loss and stress the fish has gone through makes a big difference in whether or not that fish will survive.  Blood loss can be all but eliminated if the fish is immediately immersed in the water after hook removal.  A fish's blood clots in the water and not when  exposed to the air.  I've known guys to actually remove the hook while the fish is still in the water.

How much stress a fish goes through before and after it's released is more difficult to control.  Getting a bleeding fish into the livewell quickly will stop the bleeding and to some extent reduce the stress it's experiencing.  Leaving a fish in your livewell for extended periods causes stress whether or not that fish was bleeding and reduces the survival chances for that fish.

[WRB]

Blood makes up about 4% of the basses total body weight and a loss of 2% of the total blood volume can be fatal for bass. We are talking a very small amounts, about 1/8th teaspoon for a 3 lb bass. Water may slow down a superficial tissue wound from bleeding, not a puncture is a vital organs like heart or liver.

Healing a bleeding fish wound with Mountain Dew is a myth, you might as well urinate on the bass.

Tom

[Catt]

Watch Paul Elias record catch on Falcon, he had a bass bleeding profusely, he put the bass in his livewell treated with Sure Life products, the bleeding stopped & the bass survived.

[Evan Lip Ripper]

On 5/27/2014 at 7:05 PM, fisherrw said:

ive had so expeireces like that.. i just cook the ones that bleed!

Well, the severely bleeding ones. 

[Clinton john]

My personal thoughts is if it's bleeding I'm going to eat it ( unless its under 14 inch's then it doesnt matter law says i have to put it back) because it's going to die.

 

 

[slonezp]

If it's tongue hooked it's a goner. 

[Bluebasser86]

I don't know for sure about how many bleeders die, but 100% of the ones you cook don't make it.