Water temp. is also a factor
but I feel stripers are pretty tough fish as far as survival. As long as you give a cow enough time to recover and they'll let you know when it's time, they live just fine like SK said. If a schoolie didn't get a hook in the gill or something like that it will swim away just fine. I don't think we as recs kill anywhere near the amount killed as bycatch from netters and draggers.
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