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Old 06-22-2010, 12:11 PM   #11
MikeToole
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I don't disagree with the 7% rate because of the way many people handle the fish. For people who really care and are careful 1% may be right but for others 50% would be closer. Go down to the popular beaches during the day and watch them drag fish up the beach and keep it out of the water for 20 minutes while they show everyone, then just throw it in. Even if it can swim away in the weaken state something will often eat it. Watch how they free line bait on the bottom just asking for a gut hook.

If your schoolie fishing with barbed treble hooks your going to kill more fish then single hook with the barb crushed. Watch how some people will just grab the plug and rip the hooks out rather than pulling them out the way they went in. You damage their mouth they will have trouble feeding. Too many people just don't care or think the fish can live through anything.
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