You
can greatly improve your fishing success by knowing more about
oxygen, the life-supporting necessity for everything above and
below the water. It’s common to hear really experienced
fisherman use the term D.O., or dissolved oxygen. But what does
it mean? From a fisherman’s viewpoint, D.O. stands for the
amount of dissolved oxygen in water. And it supports everything
that lives there—from fish to vegetation to algae.
So where does all this important D.O. come from? One source is
weed beds. Weed beds produce oxygen, and bass can generally be
caught in them all day long. It’s important to know, however,
that water around vegetation typically holds progressively more
oxygen during the day, especially on bright sunny days. Then it
steadily loses oxygen at night. This is due to photosynthesis,
the process by which green plants, in the presence of sunlight,
convert carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen.
Bass usually move outside the edges of weed beds late at night
and remain outside until photosynthesis reoxygenates the water
around the weeds about an hour or two after sunrise. On
extremely cloudy days, it may take longer.
So what does that mean to me? Everything – if you are trusting
your livewell to keep your catch healthy until weigh-in. You
need an Oxygenator.
The OXYGENATOR by O2 Marine Technologies will keep fish alive
because it produces the necessary component for an optimum
living environment: Oxygen. Unlike aeration systems that pump
ambient air (at 20.9% oxygen) through a diffuser into the water,
THE OXYGENATOR uses a patented process to create 100% pure
oxygen from the water itself. The OXYGENATOR Pro Livewell Flush
Mount will retrofit any boat with a livewell from 15 to 50
gallons and operates off the existing boat battery.
It is easy to install and works off your boat’s existing 12 volt
battery. Especially down south when the temperatures begin to be
a threat around July and August, this becomes an even bigger
issue. So, now is the time to look into an OXYGENATOR and
guarantee a healthy weigh-in. Go to
www.KeepFishAlive.com
for more information on this and the U2 livewell additive, too.
You
can greatly improve your fishing success by knowing more about
oxygen, the life-supporting necessity for everything above and
below the water. It’s common to hear really experienced
fisherman use the term D.O., or dissolved oxygen. But what does
it mean? From a fisherman’s viewpoint, D.O. stands for the
amount of dissolved oxygen in water. And it supports everything
that lives there—from fish to vegetation to algae.