Barotrauma: BAD SCIENCE Truths & Tips For Release

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[Tim Kelly]

Good video, and good to see Aaron making content again.

[Pat Brown]

That was fascinating and yet another great video that suggests that fishing is evolving and livescope is, perhaps counterintuitively, a money saver and could result in better conservation practices by anglers that are going to be catching them one way or another anyway.

 

I kinda liked the narrative promoting a small electric motor craft angler with limited but useful rods reels and baits and a powerful piece of technology.  2000$ seems a lot smaller when you consider the barrier to entry up until the advent of the scope, was a 100,000$ boat, 20 rods and 4 graphs.  Process of elimination gets fairly expensive fairly quickly when you turn out the lights.

 

Maybe the only entity that really needs to worry about livescope, ironically, is the tackle industry!

 

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Sure seems like an interesting take on the whole debate to me!

[Smokinal]

I admit I didn't watch the whole thing...does anyone take fizzing into consideration?

[Tackleholic]

I'm 100% catch and release and always have a fizzing needle in the boat.  Most people do not.

[gim]

Maybe just don’t target fish so deep. Seems pretty simple to me.

[greentrout]

I believe he's picking a bone with the Minnesota DNR. 

[gim]

He’s also looking for views, likes, and subscribers on YouTube.

[MIbassyaker]

"Now I'm not a biologist..."

 

Huh. You don't say.

 

Wonder why the DNR is staffed with scientists rather than, say, YouTube content creators?  I'm sure it's all a government plot to "threaten our angling rights" 🙄

[gim]

5 hours ago, MIbassyaker said:

Wonder why the DNR is staffed with scientists

Most of them are.  Not all of them.

 

Some of the top positions are political appointees, not career tenured positions based on education, qualifications, or experience.  They are replaced every 4 or 8 years depending on who the governor is.  I won't get into the politics of it but let's just say I don't think the commissioner or deputy commissioner of the DNR is qualified to currently hold those positions.

[TnRiver46]

I’m a biologist…….

 

what does that tell you about the required criteria? 😂 

[gim]

14 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’m a biologist…….

 

Armchair biologist. 

[TnRiver46]

Class of ‘07 baby haha. Still practicing 

[TnRiver46]

Honestly the kid does a pretty good job, and he said rule number one would be just don’t fish that deep. 
 

you’d be surprised how haphazard some fish and wildlife studies are, they could probably learn from this fella 

 

he’s clearly familiar with the scientific method and his study is as good as any you will find, looked much better than the one conducted by the MN DNR if I was peer reviewing it 

 

the DNR would probably hire him on the spot after seeing his study but I doubt he wans to take a pay cut 

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’m a biologist…….

 

what does that tell you about the required criteria? 😂 

A-Jay

[WRB]

I don’t like to needle (fizz) bass because it’s a wound that must heal before the air bladder is functional. 

Every winter seasonal period I see dark colored zombie bass swimming about 5’ down that have been fizzed by other anglers. Sick bass.

The best method is sinking the bass down quickly after catching it in water over 40’ deep. I use a 8 oz torpedo sinker clipped onto anther rod, put the sinker into the basses throat and lower it down, then lift up on the sinker and the bass is released at the proper depth. Easy!

Tom

[softwateronly]

32 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Honestly the kid does a pretty good job, and he said rule number one would be just don’t fish that deep. 

he’s clearly familiar with the scientific method and his study is as good as any you will find, looked much better than the one conducted by the MN DNR if I was peer reviewing it 

 

 

 

Energy expenditure and angle of descent were not considered in any meaningful way in the MN DNR study.  It's almost complete garbage.

 

scott

[TnRiver46]

@softwateronly, your license fees hard at work 😂 

[gim]

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

@softwateronly, your license fees hard at work 😂 

He lives in Illinois. License fees in Illinois do not fund studies for the Minnesota DNR.

 

Maybe stick to armchair biology instead of geography. 

[TnRiver46]

I don’t know where he lives, “the royal we, man”

 

[RipzLipz]

The kid may not have had the label of a biologist but his common sense went quite a long way considering he was releasing the fish & allowing them to actually swim away without being stopped by a net. Idiocracy has arrived.

[12poundbass]

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’m a biologist…….

 

what does that tell you about the required criteria? 😂 

[Tennessee Boy]

The kid did a great job making his point and clearly found a flaw in the DNR study.   That said,  I watched the video of the DNR study and they referred to it as a pilot study and said a more scientific study was needed.  They are not saying the study proved anything and are not saying more regulation is required.  They did say it indicates that anglers should consider keeping fish caught in deeper water and then moving shallow after they get their limit.  

[king fisher]

6 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’m a biologist…….

 

what does that tell you about the required criteria? 😂 

Maybe if you could catch a bass on a spinnerbait, your ability to meet the criteria would increase.

[TnRiver46]

@king fisher, it’s too late, I’ve already met it. No wire baits required (spinnerbaits are reserved for astrology majors)