40 Kg+ Amberjack

[busumark]

even when bottom line fishing sometimes you catch small fish but when you release them they stay afloat and die

[Freeman]

even when bottom line fishing sometimes you catch small fish but when you release them they stay afloat and die

Puncture the bubble in their mouth, should help them go down

[busumark]

but i think that they will die if you burst their bubble. they cant regulate the pressure between that of the sea and their body.

[MartinB]

thats how i understood too,the bubble is the flotation bladder without it the fish won't be able to equalize the pressure of its body to the water pressure,so if you burst it it will die anyway.

[ciappinu]

Yes. Infact freeman didn't specify anything between living and dying. He just said it will help them go down, which I'm sure it will.

[MartinB]

Your right lol! in that respect im sure it would too!

[Freeman]

tbh i have no clue if they live or die, but when i trow back the serran without puncturing the bubble they all stay afloat, when i puncture they at least swim down, i guess at least they dont die in plain sight