Carl, what do you think of these?


http://www.flipclipfishing.com/how_the_flipclip_works.html

We have experimented with these on a two day trial when they first came out. Each day we had three boats catch limits in the morning , then put at least a 20 lb. limit in my livewell , each fish over 4 lbs. . They were also caught on purpose from 30 ft. plus so BaroTrauma would be present . Each fish had clips attached per instruction , and rode in my livewell the rest of the day to simulate tournament conditions . I also purposely picked two days when the winds were causing 4 ft. swells or better due to many days on Amistad being like that . This is what I found . Running rough water, there was fin damage caused by the constant jarring. Some of the weights were found lying on the bottom of the well that came off . I also noticed that with the bigger limit , the fish more or less layed on top of each other in the well , with them swimming around proving to be difficult . We found during the fizzing study that when they rub against each other enough, it causes fungus problems, especially in the summer . At the end of each day , I simply opened the livewell, took the clips off , and back in the lake they went . I still had to fizz three out of the five the first day . 4 out of 5 the second . BaroTrauma was still present. I got in the water after releasing the fish , and watch them for around 30 minutes until they disappeared in the darkness . I had released them in 10 ft. so I could observe by snorkeling. 2 out of the 10 had trouble with the fin damage swimming around, but eventually swam off . The one thing I did notice on the positive side , was that the fish seemed less physically spent than when they just float upside down all day. That was a nice plus and gave me more to work with survival wise . Just my honest trial opinion on what we found . I wish I could have kept these fish for 3 days like we did in the study . Would have been interesting to see how they would have fared .

not worth the trouble.. they don't stay on...

you should just fizz em if its needed.

change in water temps.