Keeping bass in a livewell during the hot months and keeping them alive in a livewell are too separate thoughts. We hate to see bass perish in a livewell when it can be easily avoided with a little forethought and effort. Alabama guide and professional angler Jon Henry has only lost 1 or 2 bass in more than 20 years of tournament fishing because he takes his livewell management so seriously. Here is a very thorough video on fish care in your livewells, especially during the summer months, to ensure you make it to the weigh-in with five bass all alive and healthy to fight another day.
This video covers everything from ice, aeration, additives, water levels, recooling and more.
Products mentioned in this video:
T-H Marine Oxygenator
T-H Marine G-Juice
Please Release Me
EDITORS NOTE: Rejuvinade should not be used with The Oxygenator as the combination has been known to create a toxic build up that is lethal to the fish. G-Juice and Please Release me both work fine with Oxygenators to our knowledge.
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
