Quote Originally Posted by Ty Sennett View Post
That fish by Chipmunk was already dead when they plopped it in. The guys that caught that fish are friends of mine. They tried to revive it for more than an hour. The fish tore a gill on the hookset and didn't have a chance. Those guys knew what they were doing but the fish just had a hook the wrong way in it's gills. They even tried to put it in the livewell at the end but it didn't matter. No matter how we try sometimes the fish is just going to get hooked bad sometimes and not make it. That's the nature of throwing baits with hooks. Keeping a fish out of the water for too long is one thing but to just have a fish bleed out you can't control. That's just part of fishing.
One of the tips I read said to pour a citric acid drink like 7up on a gill that was bleeding. I think it was something about the citric acid help constrict the blood veins to help stop bleeding. Never put it to a test and if one of the gills had been torn it wouldn't have helped. Ty if you want to test it sometime and let me know if it works that would be great. Don't think it would hurt.