Dan, sorry about my first reply, but I just couldn't help it!

All kidding aside, we as humans, are affected by electricity. It is my opinion, that all life forms are "affected by electricity". Too what degree, well that's beyond my limited education…but not to my common sense! Maybe some other member has a better understanding of this then I do.

BUT, I do know how animals and fish react to it! Has anyone watched a deer getting close to an electric fence, or a smolt going down stream into an electrical field? The deer most often "knows" when the fence is on or off because he can "feel" the "electrical field" and he can "back off", but the smolt learns only the "hard way" and then its to late… right?

Look what they have done at places like the Barrier Dam on the Cowlitz! They have an electric current running all the way across the Barrier dam to prevent "adults" from jumping over the Barrier Dam (it also works well for stopping and killing any "wild" smolt that may have made it down through the upper 3 dams). The only reason they (Tacoma and WDFW) do it, is because it will cost them (Tacoma Power) big bucks to capture any wild adults that want to pass above the Barrier Dam. More money for wild fish simply means less money for WDFW hatchery "jobs"! Tacoma Power has made this position quite clear!

The game goes on and on!

Well, so much for those wild adult fish that don't "want to go" into Tacoma's hatchery… what the hell, what's a little shock going to do anyway when those fish are plumb full of eggs?

Probably just toughens up them for the real world…right?

And look at the results that WDFW and BPA have found out about using "electricity" to "shock" fish for transport. It's my understanding that is now considered to be a no-no practice! It really screws them up, even in the "short term"…right?

Who even knows what electricity does to fish… maybe that's why glow balls work so well to catch them!

Yep, it's still my laymen opinion that "electricity" does screw up and affect both humans and fish.

Cowlitzfisherman
Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????