Culling system

[Red_King814]

Can someone explain the use of a culling system I'm assuming it's to mark your fish in the live well so you and your boater don't mix fish?

[IndianaFinesse]

A culling system is usually used with colored floats that are attached to the individual bass and is used to figure out which one to throw back and is smallest when you catch six or more fish in a tournament.  For example, you catch a 1.3, 2.1, 3.7, 3.9, and a 4.5 pound bass and have green colored float for the smallest and red for the biggest and then you catch a sixth bass.  With a culling system you write what color correlates to how much that fish weighs, and if the sixth bass weighs 1.6 pounds you keep it and release the green tagged bass.  A more accurate thing to do than using a scale is to get a culling beam if two basses weights are similar, place both of them on it and which ever bass tips it's side down is the heaviest.  Every system is different, but most have some basic similarities.

Often the boater and coboaters combine the fish and a team for many of the tourneys, but when the coboater is fishing against the other coboaters and visa versa, the person in the back puts his fish in the back live well and the same for the front so that they are in separate live wells.  You really don't need a culling system unless you fish tournaments.

[Red_King814]

8 minutes ago, IndianaFinesse said:

A culling system is usually used with colored floats that are attached to the individual bass and is used to figure out which one to throw back and is smallest when you catch six or more fish in a tournament.  For example, you catch a 1.3, 2.1, 3.7, 3.9, and a 4.5 pound bass and have green colored float for the smallest and red for the biggest and then you catch a sixth bass.  With a culling system you write what color correlates to how much that fish weighs, and if the sixth bass weighs 1.6 pounds you keep it and release the green tagged bass.  A more accurate thing to do than using a scale is to get a culling beam if two basses weights are similar, place both of them on it and which ever bass tips it's side down is the heaviest.  Every system is different, but most have some basic similarities.

Often the boater and coboaters combine the fish and a team for many of the tourneys, but when the coboater is fishing against the other coboaters and visa versa, the person in the back puts his fish in the back live well and the same for the front so that they are in separate live wells.  You really don't need a culling system unless you fish tournaments.

I'm gonna be fishing in some as a co angler but this helps out a lot because I will be fishing against my boater as well, so that takes away the stress of knowing how we're gonna handle the separate fish! Thanks IF!

[tbone1993]

Cull beam is the most important part.  But living in IL i've learned that its a game of ounces. I've had times where all 5 fish look almost identical.

[Red_King814]

8 hours ago, tbone1993 said:

Cull beam is the most important part.  But living in IL i've learned that its a game of ounces. I've had times where all 5 fish look almost identical.

I'm just confused as if I should get them to just mark my fish in herbal because as I said I really don't wanna have a situation where my fish I taken lol

[Glenn]

Here's how I do it:

 

[Red_King814]

I don't plan on weighing my fish while out on the boat for various reasons, but you think these would be okay to at least tag the fish http://www.***.com/EZ-Cull-RZ_Colored_Culling_System/descpage-EZCULR.html?gclid=CPfH64eIzcwCFQckhgodzpYPIw

[Turtle135]

Does any manufacturer make a culling system that does not pop a hole in the lower jaw? Maybe a clamp on version like a miniature fish grip? I see these dime sized rips in the lower jaw of bass on bodies of water that get pounded by tournaments.

[Red_King814]

2 hours ago, Turtle135 said:

Does any manufacturer make a culling system that does not pop a hole in the lower jaw? Maybe a clamp on version like a miniature fish grip? I see these dime sized rips in the lower jaw of bass on bodies of water that get pounded by tournaments.

The ones Glenn posted above don't do that and I understand the issue with it because as fisherman we need to take the most steps we can to reduce harming them 

[Mike L]

I second the way Glenn's video explains it. It IS the best and safest way. 

It can't be said too many times tho, DON'T touch the gills. 

 

Mike