Bass anglers who use soft-plastic worms or lizards, often see fish suck down hooks that cause deep wounds and blood loss.
For a tournament angler, a bleeding fish is a critical worry, because they often die and bring deductions at weigh-ins.
But David Peninger, a Hyco tournament regular, has a method to stop the bleeding.
“First thing you do is cut your line,” he said. “You don’t want to try to jerk a hook out if it’s deep, because that’ll kill a bass for sure.”
His next step he calls the “Mountain Dew remedy,” and it will stop the bleeding almost instantly.
“If a bass is bleeding because it’s hooked deep, hold him vertically and pour some Mountain Dew in his mouth,” Peninger said. “It’ll stop the bleeding, and you’ll have a live bass instead of a dead one.”
Speculation centers on citrus as the ingredient that stops bleeding, but citrus is an anti-coagulant. The most likely coagulant in Mountain Dew may be its relatively high pH (3.2) and a stress reaction (more mucous production or self-cauterization) as a response to the shock of acidic liquid poured into a bass’s mouth.
In any case, it’s probably a cliché, but if you’ve got a bleedin’ bass, a little Dew will do ya.
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