'eye chaser wrote:
was at weigh in on friday, watched about an hour of fish being transported from boat to tent , saw more bass belly up than right side up. thought / hoped it was due to the small bags that they were in and they couldnt get themselves corrected. 60% thats a damn shame ... did see the lads stuffing the release boat with ice. now this ice was from an ice company thought maybe should have been frozen lake water. due to the treatment of store bought ice haven small amts of chlorine , etc. ?
I fished with Bruce Tufts on Friday. He's the Queen's Biology professor for fisheries and I believe, the expert on maintaining fish. I know he was on hand to help with fizzing and most fish that were looking like they were in bad shape in the bags, weren't necessarily so.
He gave a speach the night we had the manditory meeting and did say to make sure the ice wasn't the regular store bought due to chlorine...so I'd like to think they wouldn't use that with him and others watching closely.
BTW - I'd be in for the beer-blue gill-slammed fest!