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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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as to catch/release, it is almost never done properly hook set and
retrieval is never done properly and while it sounds good c/r hurts
more fish than it saves.

Proper "Catch and release hurts more fish than it saves?" Are you sure
you phrased that correctly? Afterall, the vast majority of fish caught
and released live to be fooled again.

You should know better than to say something as statistically outrageous
as that. Let's focus on red snapper, for instance. What percentage of
them are tagged or marked in some way, so they can be identified later?

Go on floridasportsman.com fishing forums and send an IM to a member named
C. undecimalis (Alexis Trotter) if you think I'm wrong. She lives in St.
Pete, works for FWC, and studies mortality rates of c/r snook.

Here's what her study showed:


General Catch and Release Mortality:
Estimated at 2.13%.

It's an interesting study, but it only applies to snook placed in a holding
tank after being caught. How tough is a snook? My only frame of reference
would be fresh water fish at the moment. If I release a weakened smallmouth
bass in a lake where there are no pike around, it's got a better chance of
survival than if there ARE pike, which will spot a crippled fish and turn it
into dinner very quickly. If I release a weakened pike (and it's pretty hard
to do that to a pike), the fish has sharp enough fins & gill covers that not
much will attack it while it's getting its wits about it again.

You can't point to one study and say it's conclusive about all fish.