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Enjoy your vids and have learned a lot from them. Just a few days ago I caught a 3.5# LM from shore that chocked my Hybrid Hunter jr and one treble stuck the tongue. I always pour club soda on bass bleeds. The bleeding stopped as soon as I put the fish back in the cold water. It just sat there looking at me for at least 2 min. with no more blood coming from the fish. It then shot away. Oh, I always ask the Lord to save them and leave it up to Him.
That is a crazy tip thanks Tyler for that info 👍🏻
I've noticed a definite difference…fish that would've without a doubt died without the Dew ended up stopping bleeding right away and swimming off at the end of the day perfectly fine. Keep in mind that these are fish I catch early in the tournament too, and they swim away just as well as the others 8 hours later. I'm a firm believer just through experience that Mountain Dew works to coagulate the blood, stop the bleeding, and keep bass alive, and will always keep it in my boat.
Tyler, love that you care so much for the fish that you catch. Try a new experiment. Get an empty cup and keep it in your boat. Next time you injure a fish fill the cup with lake water and pour it on the fish. I suspect it's the moisture that causes the blood to coagulate. Fish are adapted to water environments and not air. Give it a shot see if it works. If not do the dew.
Yo! I'm a toxicologist by trade with experience in vascular research in mammals. It's plausible that the caffiene and/or pH is causing vasoconstriction for a brief moment, until returned to water, which the concentration would then be immediatley be dilluted. What is more important is the impact on clotting factors (prothrombin/apt/aptt), which is complicated and warrants additional studies. The vascular physiology and anatomy is likely conserved from other fish species to bass and likely even to mammalian but the sample size seems too low to leverage a correlation without a predefined statistical cutpoint. The science could be determined with an appropriate design but I applaud your efforts to save the bass in any case (I usually toss them back and just feel bad about it). Some of the best scientific discoveries initiate from anecdotal evidence and theories. Keep making observations!
why not just eat the fish?
Hi there Tyler, I know it's a habit of yours (and many other angler's) but plz try no to do that to bass. Here's why: Washing a wound with a soft drink like Coke or other carbonated drink is not advisable for several reasons:
Sugar Content: Soft drinks contain high levels of sugar, which can promote bacterial growth. This increases the risk of infection rather than helping to clean the wound.
Acidity: The acidity in Coke (from phosphoric acid and carbonation) can irritate the wound, potentially causing pain and delaying healing.
Lack of Sterility: Soft drinks are not sterile solutions. Introducing non-sterile liquids into a wound can introduce bacteria and contaminants.
Inadequate Cleaning: Soft drinks do not have the properties required to effectively clean a wound. Proper wound care typically involves using sterile saline or clean water to flush out debris and bacteria.
Potential for Chemical Reactions: The ingredients in soft drinks may react with substances in the wound or with any medications applied, leading to adverse effects.
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This is the most redneck thing ive ever heard.
I have never heard of this! Did this come from Idiocrisy?😂
😂😂😂I felt the same disappointment when I watched it. Lol. It was a great episode. Love the discussion of things like that.
Watched this study a while back. I used to be a firm believer of it as well but it just doesn't. Delayed mortality is also a big thing people don't understand. People think oh it stopped bleeding for 5 seconds and swam off its healed. Just doesn't work like that. Fish could die 30 mins or and hour later. Extremely hard to track stuff like that. Getting better at removing hooks from deeply hooked fish has seem to really help me save a lot of fish as often I fish the same areas for hours at a time.
I got FishLife from tacklewarehouse. Haven't had a bleeding fish since I bought it so I can say it is working great.
I figure the cold water would help stop the bleeding.
I love all your videos man. I’d buy your gear but I’d need a 4xl. I’d rock the shirts all the time.
Worked for me ! Had a fish bleeding bad . Poured some Dew, stopped right then
Hey Tyler the carbonation doesn't help anything, but all the sugar does. So you're not completely wrong about using mountain dew. Check out the use of sugar water with wounds. It would explain what you have experienced. Since mountain dew has twice the sugar and caffeine of other sodas.
A 12 US fl oz (355 mL) can of Mountain Dew contains 54 mg of caffeine (equivalent to 152 mg/L).
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki
Mountain Dew – Wikipedia
Caffeine is an ingredient used in many Meds. Vasodilator ?
DO THE DEW !
It doesn't work on warm-blooded animals. 🙄
Anything with citric acid will work. The citric acid cauterizes the bleed instantly. Numerous "sodas" will work the same as does "real-lemon" lemon juice.
Pespi does it quite well. Used it last year.
Say what you want, but I have never lost a fish that I've used squart on, but have lost fish that are bleeding, and not had anything to stop the blood.
I use squirt in the little 7oz plastic bottles. Have been using it for 20+ years. I actually have given away cases of this product in my tournaments. I carry a few bottles in the livewell.
What about the powdered bleed stop you can purchase? It coagulates blood. Maybe I’ll try it
I did my own study on small mouth . The ones with gill bleed that I release in clear water have blood trails swimming away . The ones I give the dew do not. I have know more info because it's illegal to tag them
If it doesn’t have any effect and it makes you feel better, keep doing it.
The study found that the bleeding stops because the fish’s heart stops beating temporarily when stressed by being out of the water and/or the foreign liquid on their gills. So it appears that the soda stops the bleeding. But when the fish were placed in white tanks after being treated with the soda and other liquids, the bleeding resumed as the heartbeat returned. So, people are right when they observe the bleeding stopping, but it’s just temporary.
Quick release is the best answer. Having a pair of high quality nippers that can reach in and cut the barb off even heavy duty hooks is an important tool to have if you really want to save fish hooked deeply.