Marsha,

The studies relating to mortality on released steelhead have been hashed, and re-hashed, and re-hashed, on this site plenty of times...with no bait and no barb, adult winter run steelhead survive to spawn at about a 97% rate, give or take.

Those are studies on steelhead, not Atlantic Salmon, and not Chinook salmon...steelhead.

Do a search if you don't remember them.

Still waiting for all those times I said I, and others, have no impact when we fish...and we both know how long I'll be waiting for that...since I never said it, ever.

Fish on...

Todd