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Originally Posted by MakoMike
Its not a question of hurting their jaws. Hanging a big fish displaces their internal organs, often leading to death, days later..
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This is debatable.
What you are talking about is "isthmus injury". It has been shown to be a problem with snook, but studies in muskies have not shown an increase in mortality with weighing, even in larger fish. There is not much info one way or the other with big bass as far as I am aware. Certainly many fish that are weighed and tagged survive and are caught again.