Be a Bass EMT!

[TightLinez]

Through EMT training I learned how to control bleeding on patients- direct pressure, elevate, apply additional dressing, pressure wrap, apply pressure to proximal artery, tourniquet, yadda yadda yadda.......

Now I''ve never tried it, but that might be a little difficult to do on a bass.
One thing you can do to help control the bleeding is to keep a bottle of soda with citric acid (Sprite, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, etc.) in the boat with you. When the bass starts bleeding, pour the soda over the affected area. The acid should constrict the capillaries, reducing or even stopping the hemorrhage! If you don't have to use it, you've also got an extra soda to drink. Win-win situation.

Not sure, but I don't know if you should try this on your buddy after you hook him.

[Kal-Kevin]

I'll tell you one thing I will not give any bass mouth to mouth no matter if he needs it or not! well maybe a little kiss if she is nice but that is the limit!   

sounds like a good idea but I wonder if the pop would wash off their slim coating, it would be more harmful if they lost their slim coat and the bleeding stopped! 

[TightLinez]

I was talking mainly for bleeding from the gills or gullet. Not sure if it would take the slime off......
I always practice "CPR" with my bass.

[ShawnDee4]

Thanks for passing this on. I read this in latest bassmaster and was surprised I never heard of it. Anything we can do to help out those bleeders.

[Bassinkorea]

Now that could be a cool idea 

[crash]

great tip...thanks tightlines. This is a good thing to know and do.   Glad you put it up and that you are a EMT.  I read in the Bass Masters Dec. '08 (tips section page 18) to do the same thing.

I was a EMT-P and worked on the Ft Worth Ambulance til 1997.  I was never taught this....it's good to know.  Simple and easy without getting your hands bloody  .

[TightLinez]

great tip...thanks tightlines. This is a good thing to know and do.   Glad you put it up and that you are a EMT.  I read in the Bass Masters Dec. '08 (tips section page 18) to do the same thing.

I was a EMT-P and worked on the Ft Worth Ambulance til 1997.  I was never taught this....it's good to know.  Simple and easy without getting your hands bloody  .

Yup, that's where I read the tip today. Those Bassmaster magazines are stocked full of tips like these, which is why I have a subscription! This tip, along with the one on how to remove swallowed hooks (somewhere in this board), should help save more bass.

[crash]

always good to have tips to help save those critters...to catch another day 

[Bassinkorea]

This is one of the main reasons of the tips forum.......to help each other and to help the BASS  

[ronalddipietro]

I just eat them and drink   

[mattdawg]

sorry

[coldfront]

Thanks for passing this on. I read this in latest bassmaster and was surprised I never heard of it. Anything we can do to help out those bleeders.

actually, I think that fish blood is evolved to clot when in water...so, one of the best things to do for a bleeder is get it back in...