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View Poll Results: Bonk Your Fish?
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05-03-2012, 04:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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I thought you were supposed to bonk them BEFORE release, knock some sense into them for taking my silly fly/lure.
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05-03-2012, 09:45 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Originally Posted by mudbug
I have one of these that Ken makes and they are great and well worth having  Send him a PM and he'll set you up with one  |
you buy those at the Love Stop?
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05-03-2012, 10:09 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I dont keep fish but if I did I would opt for a one handed choke followed by a leg drop.
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05-03-2012, 10:42 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quick stab in the brain, slice the gills and into ice slurry if possible. The Ike jime method, by far the best way to get the highest quality from the meat. I was lazy last year and didn't do it to a few fish and boy did they taste off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_jime
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05-04-2012, 08:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by Mariko's Rod
I dont keep fish but if I did I would opt for a one handed choke followed by a leg drop.
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That's funny 
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Only dead fish go with the flow. The rest use their brains in life.
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought..... 
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05-04-2012, 09:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Edmonton, AB
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never owned a fish bonker in my life.
Typically only kept fish in winter...and just did the classic toss to the side of the hole and go after another.
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05-05-2012, 12:36 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Fort Saskatchewan Ab
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Bonking them makes them extra slimy , A good ole slash to the throat , maybe be blade between the eyes DONE DEAL CASE CLOSED THIS IS NO LONGER CATCH AND RELEASE . This is how I Git R Done in winter for the odd Pike . Then they are not all slimy to handle .
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05-05-2012, 08:11 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Originally Posted by BIGBADJOHN
Bonking them makes them extra slimy
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are you serious ?
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05-05-2012, 10:43 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Fort Saskatchewan Ab
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Originally Posted by pickrel pat
are you serious ?
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For real man . FOR FRIGGEN REAL , at least thats my experience .
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05-05-2012, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by BIGBADJOHN
For real man . FOR FRIGGEN REAL , at least thats my experience .
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I have never noticed that, do you put them on ice, in water in a cooler, on the bottom of the boat.....
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Only dead fish go with the flow. The rest use their brains in life.
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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05-05-2012, 04:32 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Calgary
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Thanks BBJ, never even thought of to notice.
I'm gonna experiment with my next few catches, bonk one and cut another to see for myself.
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Originally Posted by BIGBADJOHN
For real man . FOR FRIGGEN REAL , at least thats my experience .
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Originally Posted by pikergolf
Mine is so secret I don't even fish there lest someone spots me, I'm content just knowing about my secret spot.  |
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05-05-2012, 04:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Originally Posted by BIGBADJOHN
For real man . FOR FRIGGEN REAL , at least thats my experience .
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cool beans! slime can get pretty slimey!
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05-05-2012, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Alberta Bigbore
never owned a fish bonker in my life.
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I never owned a fisher bonker either until I started perch fishing at our community lake...Then a fellow named Sundancefisher gave my son and me one each...With four years of pearch culling, those bonkers have see lots of action...
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05-05-2012, 09:03 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Originally Posted by Badback
I never owned a fisher bonker either until I started perch fishing at our community lake...Then a fellow named Sundancefisher gave my son and me one each...With four years of pearch culling, those bonkers have see lots of action... |
if you lined up a row of 20 perch you could easily put them all to sleep with one leg drop. Its just as classy
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05-05-2012, 10:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Edmonton, AB
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Originally Posted by pickrel pat
cool beans! Slime can get pretty slimey!
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lol !!
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05-05-2012, 10:49 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
I have never noticed that, do you put them on ice, in water in a cooler, on the bottom of the boat.....
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John keeps fish in his belly!
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05-05-2012, 10:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mariko's Rod
if you lined up a row of 20 perch you could easily put them all to sleep with one leg drop. Its just as classy
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Chuck Norris for the win!
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05-06-2012, 08:32 AM
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Banned
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Perdue SK
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Dead fish
A much less atavistic method is to reach in behind the gills and crush the heart against the spine with your thumb. The fish bleeds out and dies quickly. Toss the unit into your live well full of ice (plug the inlet tube to prevent water infiltration) and enjoy your lunch.
A couple of years ago one of our members described a scene on her kitchen floor when a bonked northern pike leapt out of the sink and tried to escape across the linoleum. Freaked everybody out (especially "hubby")(funny name for a man), considering that the fish had been well and truly killed several hours earlier. This cannot happen if the fish has no pulse.
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05-09-2012, 08:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Alberta
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Did these today, fish are not safe all over the place!
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Only dead fish go with the flow. The rest use their brains in life.
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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05-09-2012, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
Did these today, fish are not safe all over the place!
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gonna be a whole lot of fish with headaches now! (please dont sell one to my ex wife)!!!!!! 
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Shove your masks and your vaccines
Non Compliance!!!!!!
"According to Trudeau, Im an extremist who needs to be dealt with"
#Trudeau must go
Wheres The Funds
The vaccine was not brought in for COVID. COVID was brought in for the vaccine. Once you realize that, everything else makes sense.” ~ Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
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05-09-2012, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by WayneChristie
gonna be a whole lot of fish with headaches now! (please dont sell one to my ex wife)!!!!!! |
Uh oh, Winona Christie just called here....
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Only dead fish go with the flow. The rest use their brains in life.
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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05-11-2012, 02:53 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
Did these today, fish are not safe all over the place!
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3 people that asked for 1 have backed out, if anyone wants 1 pm me
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Only dead fish go with the flow. The rest use their brains in life.
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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05-11-2012, 06:07 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Medicine Hat
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jungleboy
I usually give them a choice . " give me $5 or I'll break your fin"
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Bwahahahaa Hilarious!
For the veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery rare occassion I eat fish I catch (usually only for shore lunch or I know fishy will not survive release due to whatever), I'm a bonker. Don't actually own one though. If on shore, good ol big rock to the noggin' works just fine. If on ice or boat my long pliers work great too! May not be the best technique for meat quality but it's clean and I'm not one to let fishy slowly tap out, just seems wrong...FOR ME PERSONALLY anyway
Interesting question...more interesting answers lol.
Great looking bonkers Ken, could be a multi-tool 
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05-11-2012, 06:13 PM
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Location: Near YVR
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Now I know I need Glasses...
I thought it read boink your fish.
Was worried you guys in Alberta had been cooped up to long over the winter.
Now I am going for a drift on Saturday on the Cowichan river on Vancouver Island.
Be trying for Rainbows and Browns of which the later is on my bucket list, dont ask me why they just are.
Tight Lines,
Rob
ps, Yes I BONK my fish, enough for a feed is all I ask for.
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05-11-2012, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck
I heard Wayne doesn't bonk his fish but he "disciplines the primate" regularly...
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