12% release mortality on ocean fresh coho is ridiculous, doesn't even pass the straight face test.

Anywhere you are catching fire engines, tomato cans, and boots, coho can be released with a very good survival rate, so there's no reason to do the "catch two and go home" rule in those places...in the salt, in the tidewater, in the very lower stretches...that's where at least 50% mortality is the norm, not the exception.

Fish on...

Todd