Properly aerated tanks with a fungicide dip treatment were not seen during this particular weigh-in. In addition to the two above problems, which were bad enough, Concho Park Marina owner David Finley says the bass club involved allows dead bass to be weighed during their club competitions. Give me a break. Obviously, if a fish is deep-hooked or otherwise injured while being caught, and dies in the livewell, it is perfectly right for the angler to keep the fish to eat.
Nobody here is encouraging waste.
Publicly owned fish that are being used only to win cash or prizes in tournaments should be kept alive and returned to their home lake in the best possible physical condition. If the wrong person had happened along at Lake Ivie and took pictures of all those big female bass, floating belly-up, the bass club involved would probably be looking for a good lawyer to help them with their lawsuit. What is so totally flabbergasting about this situation is that someone, anyone, and especially a bass club, would do something so stupid when bass tournaments and bass clubs are taking so much heat from non-tournament anglers. Wake up people. The non-tournament anglers far outnumber us, and if recent history is any indication, they don't really look forward to seeing us on the lake.