It has always puzzled me why C&R advocates think so highly of themselves WRT preservation of the species. I mean, if you hook a fish that just swam upstream 100 miles, then fight it for 1/2 an hour with a hook stuck in its mouth, do you think it's going to be in any mood to spawn, if it survives at all?
Would you shoot a deer with a bow-n-arrow (carefully, in a non-lethal location), then track it until it is too weak to run, patch up its wound, and send it on its way? Of course not. The deer might not survive. Why do this to fish?
First of all, Finegrain's reply cracks me up becuase it proves no point at all.
ODFW has done studies on C&R fish...tagged...and still went to spawn. I personally have seen fish in the holding pens with broken lures in their mouths, and other body parts....in line to spawn.
Next answer. The deer population is the highest it has ever been in history so the harvesting of a deer totally differs from that of an endangered fish. My late grandfather shot a genetically inferior spike, but his scope was off. He hit the deer in a non-lethal area....front right leg, right above the kneecap. We tracked that deer with dogs all the way to a river, and lost the deer when the deer went into the river. The following deer season, that crippled buck was back out in the field. He was limping, but the sumbeeyotch was still trying to mount does. Of course a precise bullet brought him down, and his inferior genes could not be passed on.
You totally underestimate the survival rate of animals, and also their sex drive. It takes over normal behavior.
I guess you just like to hear yourself speak, but don't come to a battle of wits unarmed.
AND LASTLY, THE CHIEFS SUCK SO MUCH ASS!
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