New Article: Maximizing Survival After Catch-and-Release

[Glenn]

Every angler needs to see this!

https://www.bassresource.com/fish_biology/catch-and-release.html

[WRB]

Post catch mortality has always been misunderstood and mis estimated imo.

I killed my 1st big bass as a kid because excited to show off my catch. My grandmother made me clean and fillet the bass I had tried to catch over a 2 year period. I failed to realize Mosses had become such a challenge to catch the fish was like a friend. The impact was I couldn’t keep any big bass since, a personal catch and release ethic dating back into the 50’s.

Proper handing starts with the hook set and ends with healthy release, livewell are coffins imo.

Very good article and hoped more would be discussed on nets. We bass anglers don’t have the skills or tools to lift bass out of the 2 handed and hold onto the rod without loosing the big bass. A net solves this problem but creates loss of slim coat.

I like the MLF weigh and release but proper handling is missing.

Thank you for sharing,

Tom

[A-Jay]

Every legal Fish I land needs to see this.

There are Two Options available.

option 1 

option 2

 

I'm good either way.

 

A-Jay

 

[TnRiver46]

6 hours ago, WRB said:

Post catch mortality has always been misunderstood and mis estimated imo.

I killed my 1st big bass as a kid because excited to show off my catch. My grandmother made me clean and fillet the bass I had tried to catch over a 2 year period. I failed to realize Mosses had become such a challenge to catch the fish was like a friend. The impact was I couldn’t keep any big bass since, a personal catch and release ethic dating back into the 50’s.

Proper handing starts with the hook set and ends with healthy release, livewell are coffins imo.

Very good article and hoped more would be discussed on nets. We bass anglers don’t have the skills or tools to lift bass out of the 2 handed and hold onto the rod without loosing the big bass. A net solves this problem but creates loss of slim coat.

I like the MLF weigh and release but proper handling is missing.

Thank you for sharing,

Tom

Your grandmother was a good lady. If you kill it you eat it, that’s what we were all taught 

[Swamp Girl]

I always get nervous with the bigger bass I catch and try to hurry them back into the water. They're rare, so I treat them that way. 

[TLHSS]

Like @WRB, I would have liked to see some conversation on the use of landing nets and post catch mortality.  I've gotten to the point where I always use a net to land a fish (shore fishing), remove the hook while the fish is in the net, snap a photo while it's in the net, and release the fish from the net.  I'm thinking that practice may improve fish mortality, but I have no way to prove it. 

[Susky River Rat]

This has been preached in the musky world for a very long time including the 80 degree water temp mark. Not using light gear etc. I have practiced those same thoughts when I pretty much went exclusively to bass.

[Bird]

I remember as a child having a great deal of respect for every fish I caught.

As I've gotten older it's even moreso.

 

 

[Choporoz]

7 hours ago, Bird said:

I remember as a child having a great deal of respect for every fish I caught.

As I've gotten older it's even moreso.

 

 

Same here.  It comes from my mother.  I remember her spending upwards of a half hour holding/swimming, and stoking the belly of pike that battled long against her light spinning gear.  The few that didn't make it found themselves on the grill, even though we'd all preferred to have had perch or walleye.

My wife is the same.  Not unusual for her to yell at some pro on the TV to get that fish back in the water.  Jimmy Houston gets yelled at quite a bit...lol

[J Francho]

@WRB your story is so similar to mine. My grandfather let me keep it and showed me how to fillet it. It tasted terrible. I'm not sure it was the guilt affecting my taste buds or what. 

[J Francho]

Very good article!

[FrnkNsteen]

57 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

My wife is the same.  Not unusual for her to yell at some pro on the TV to get that fish back in the water.  Jimmy Houston gets yelled at quite a bit...lol

Mine too 😊 the guys on Lindners and In-Fisherman get yelled at quite a bit by her too.