Fishing in Fish tank?

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Fishing in your tank would take the excitiment out of the sport. Due to the fact that once food is in the tank the fish is already eating or about to eat it. Patience is a virtue and once you get your reward it makes it that much more exciting.
 
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my dumb behind droped a dinger by yum in my native tank one day. one of the lmb straight inhaled it and it was in his stomach balled up, had him looking crazy. When i woke up the next morning he had spit it up.

Even hookless i wouldnt go fishing in my tank. I love my dudes to much, but as everyone on this site should know

I LOVES ME SOME FISHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
lmao , my uncle had about a thousand LMB and catfish in his pond that was probably 40X80' long and 10-15 feet deep. And I thought that was unsportsmanlike
 
Yea - I wouldnt suggest fishing in your tank, I wouldnt in mine... Not only would it hurt the fish, possibly kill it, traumitize :WHOA: it for sure (if you even caught it AND managed to take the hook out - it might never eat again!) but can you imagine if someone actually caught you on film sitting on your couch, beer in 1 hand, pole in the other, watching Judge Judy, fishing out of your own house pond? :ROFL:Holy redneck! :)
 
Sorry for any inflammatory comments i may have made but i figured it was a cruel joke. I don't see the point in spending grands on something you torture out of stupidity. Better you asked the question instead of just doing it.
Apologies all round.
 
you know I did this when I was a kid and we had a fish tank with some carp we caught from a local pond. We put the carp in the tank and they lived for many years. Since I was a kid, sometimes I would put a hook with a worm and fish them. The carp would take the worm and I would reel them out. I took the hook out and would catch some of the others. I didn't do this often and wouldn't recommend it. I was just young.
 
snyder810;3022703; said:
um as stated all fish eventually die, but no most fish caught and released heal relatively quickly and don't just die off. unless some idiot mutilates said fish to dislodge a hook.
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I said many, not most. Except for deep water fish, the majority of fish, released properly, do survive catch and release. A lot of factors come into play though(how long the fish is played(obviously, not very long in an aquarium :D), how long the fish is out of the water(if at all), if you are using live bait or lures, how the fish is handled, etc). I was basing this on what my freshwater biology teacher has said and a couple of websites I've seen that say the survival rate can vary from about the 60s to 90s in percents. I haven't been able to find the sources for these articles, so keep that in mind if they are inaccurate. It's late, so I don't have time to hunt down the official studies at the moment.

One site

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I will attempt to share with you the most scientifically substantiated information I have seen on catch and release methods. The study looked at survival rates of played out rainbow trout that were also exposed to air for 60 seconds, 30 seconds, and 0 seconds. Additionally, the survival rates on non-exercised rainbow trout were used as a control for the study. Get ready, the results are surprising.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]As you'd expect, the control group had a 100% survival rate. The rainbow trout that were exhaustively exercised and not exposed to air survived at an 88% rate. However, the rate of survival for fish exposed to air for 30 seconds was only 62%, and those that were held out of the water for 60 seconds had a mere 28% chance of living to fight another day. The researchers attributed the higher mortality among fish exposed to air to a significant reduction of oxygen content in the fish's blood.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]http://www.mgfalaska.com/catch-release.html[/FONT]

Wikipedia is more positive about catch and release. Has sources at bottom of page, but I'm not sure which one this data came from(if from any).

While a number of scientific studies have now found survival rates of shallow water fish caught-and-released on fly and lure have extremely high survival rates (95–97%) and modestly high survival rates on bait (70–90%, depending on species, bait, hook size, etc.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_and_release

Just so everyone knows, I usually do catch and release when I fish. I'm not in anyway bashing fishing. I just wanted to point out to the original poster that it was possible for this to kill his fish. It may not be likely, if he does it properly, but it is possible. I don't think it is wise to take the chance with your pet fish.
 
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