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Originally posted by Mr. Sandman
1) MM: I would like to see those studies, I do not believe it. Please post these articles. IMO this type of talk and so called "studies" are being brought on by the comm fisherman with an agenda. The striped bass is a HEARTY fish and can live just fine being picked up by the jaw for a moment and weighed. That mention of this matter in SWS was lame and not scientific at all. I have seen bass with a huge bite taken out of them and it healed and they were living fine.
If this was a problem we would have heard about this YEARS ago. There have been real studies that have looked at the total mortalitiy of fish caught and released. The figures is something like 6-8% mortality. Most of these fish were weighed. If this was a problem (internal organs falling apart upon weighing) the total mortality would be a lot higher.
2) The problem with an IGFA portable scale is that you can NOT take a valid IGFA measurement ON A BOAT!! You have to be ON LAND. The reason is a boat floats and is subject to accelerations due to wave action and bouyancy and will effect any reading.
3) IMO (which is *not* the law) I don't have a problem with high grading...IF you have a proper live well. Since most don't the law makes sense I guess. I doubt you will get a fine for this....It is probably treated the same as using a 9" scup for bass bait....no one has ever got a fine for this but I bet dollars to doughnuts that nearly every single bass nut out there using scup for bait has a few under 10" in there well.
BTW, why can you keep a scup alive in a well and not a bass? I guess it is legal to high grade scup? they have limits too...different but similar regulations.
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Answer # 3 is just the reason I asked the question!
I can't imagine too many boats are equiped
with a live well large enough to keep a fish this size alive and have enough water flow through them.
I have a live well more than large enough to fit more than1 fish this size and pumps 3800 gph (or 63.3 gpm) through 1 1/2 hose inlets and 2 over flows the same size hose !
Ron