Originally Posted By: salvelinus
Originally Posted By: eyeFISH
Anyone who thinks it's only 10-15% release mortality is kidding themselves. Better multiply that by 5.... gets you a LOT closer to the real number.


True dat, especially when each fish is netted, held beside boat for photo-ops, and handled/released. Practice what we preach especially in the case when said fish are by-catch species. That goes for at least two participating in this discussion that I personally witnessed on 16 Sept.


Not sure who you are aiming this at...but if you are in any way insinuating that this happened in eyeFish's boat I can assure you that it did not, as I was in that boat on the 16th.

There were exactly 18 coho landed in that boat...and since there were six of us fishing that day in that boat, there were exactly "zero" coho released, with or without photos...and as soon as the 18th coho was killed all the lines came in and we headed back to port.

If you mean someone else on this thread I'd be curious to hear who as we were out there all day and I didn't notice it happen a single time amongst any boats, much less anyone that I know and is posting on this thread.

Fish on...

Todd
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