Man they really smashed them on the twins yesterday.  I have one complaint tho.  On the FLW website it shows the leader holding his two biggest bass.  I can tell the biggest one is dead as door nail.  I wonder what they do with dead bass?  I mean it would look bad to release a dead 7 pounder in the lake right? 

That's a good question! I believe they do return them to nature though.... Just sorta quiet like

They get a penalty for having a dead fish but that is a really good question, maybe they put them back for turtle food, or maybe they just through them out.  Either way I hope they do it respectively

Not sure about FLW, but I know at the last tournament I was at, there were several guys that lost fish and the weigh-in officials collected all of them and the DNR came to pick them up.  Not sure what the DNR did with them though.

We had DNR take them to an Eagle nest/resting area.  This was at Patoka lake Indiana a few years back.

normally they are sent to some kind of charitable organization, for instance in FL we have a number of groups we work with, a home less group, Financially needy families, a Big Cat Rescue, bird Rescue, ect.

I don't know what BASS, FLW, or anyone else does, but in the local tournaments I run, or someone else runs that I fish in, a dead fish becomes property of the angler who caught it. He may do with it what he wishes...... EXCEPT.... toss it back in the lake, or dispose of it at the tournament site. I have weighed a few dead ones in over the years, I have a buddy who takes mine to bait traps with.