Smallies

How deep are you guys finding the Smallies right now
Looking for a starting depth TIA

Go to kb and find the boat packs too bad these guys sre bringing them up too fast lots of floaters out there

What do you mean floaters?? Are people pooping in the water. Disgusting!

Lol.....no poop....I hope not anyway.

When you bring a fish up from deep water too fast they tend to blow their air sack and then they cannot go back down and usually end up dying, seen it many times with perch. When fishing deep it is better to reel up slowly.

Maybe the MNR would do well with an instructional video on their regulations website explaining this to folks who don't usually spend a lot of time in deep water.

It's not really about bringing them up too fast. I'd argue that it's being too slow. If you bring up a fish quickly and release it quickly, it will almost always survive. Bring them up too slowly and mess around with unhooking and photo's, and you can pretty much flip a coin as to whether they survive release or not.

Fizzing is a terrible idea for recreational fishing, and if you want to fish for deep fish that are prone to barotrauma then you ought to have a deep water release tool AKA descender on board. Rant over.

To the OP, I'd start around 25' and let your finder be your guide.

Lol.....no poop....I hope not anyway.

When you bring a fish up from deep water too fast they tend to blow their air sack and then they cannot go back down and usually end up dying, seen it many times with perch. When fishing deep it is better to reel up slowly.

LOL ok I understand now. Not cool just killing fish just for your jollies thou