"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:24:00 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Stumbled into something on Saturday and tried 'em out last night.
WHOO HOO!!!
http://tinyurl.com/f3hpy
In Pearl/Gray, they are very attractive to stripers - big stripers. I
was totally surprised.
Boated and released a ton of blue too.
Good times.
Those things are delicious with dijon mustard.
Somewhat related: I'm reading more and more info lately (and not from
anyone
even remotely involved with PETA) that catch & release does not work. The
mortality rate may be MUCH higher than we've thought for many years. It
has
no relationship, either, to whether you use barbless hooks.
I've seen some of those studies and they are a concern, no doubt about
it.
On the other hand, I fish a lot of lakes and rivers with catch/release
for trout and I don't see evidence of a large amount of over kill in
those - quite the contrary in fact.
Tom, think about that paragraph, beginnning with "On the other hand". :-)
You seem like a guy who knows something about stats and research methods.
I think a lot of it is how you treat the fish after catching it.
Personally, if I'm bass fishing, I keep them in a live well with
highly oxygenated water and leave it that way for a couple of hours. I
don't chuck 'em back into the water and I don't hold them by the jaw
with their mouths open. As a result, I personally don't see the same
mortality they have been reporting.
With stripers, it's a tad more difficult, but I always try to release
the fish in the water rather than remove it from the water to remove
the hook. Drag it along side the boat for a minute or two and release
it - they seem like they are ok - I've never been back to an area and
seen a dead striper that way. I took that idea from a billfish guide
I fished with ten or so years ago.
Blue fish - you can't kill them things - they will eat your face off
even if they are half dead.
Yeah...it's a whole combination of things. I start fondling the handgun when
I see guys wearing a thick garden glove so they can safely (for them) hoist
a large fish by the gill cover, and then swing it all over the boat while
they hunt for the camera.