Striper mortality

[ivanputski]

Here is something that I just thought about...

What is the mortality rate of Largemouth bass? It is common practice to keep these guys in a small live well on a boat that is getting banged around for
hours during a tournament, Brough to scales in a bag of water, and then carried around hoisted like luggage in the air while shouting and running...
Who knows when they get released... and it is always assumed that they all survive. Do they? do most live? do many die?
do more largemouth bass die than we think? or do they mostly live?

If most largemouth bass live, is it possible the 10% striped bass mortality rate inaccurately high?
Just wondering if there is a correlation.

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by ivanputski

Here is something that I just thought about...

What is the mortality rate of Largemouth bass? It is common practice to keep these guys in a small live well on a boat that is getting banged around for
hours during a tournament, Brough to scales in a bag of water, and then carried around hoisted like luggage in the air while shouting and running...
Who knows when they get released... and it is always assumed that they all survive. Do they? do most live? do many die?
do more largemouth bass die than we think? or do they mostly live?

If most largemouth bass live, is it possible the 10% striped bass mortality rate inaccurately high?
Just wondering if there is a correlation.

Having done it for four years I can say for certain there is a much higher death rate in the summer and many fish don’t even survive to get released and those dead fish cost you a weight penalty.
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[zimmy]

Lots of studies out there. This article has a long list of relevant references
https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley....EOS%3E2.3.CO;2

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by zimmy

Lots of studies out there. This article has a long list of relevant references
https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley....EOS%3E2.3.CO;2

Do you have access to that paper?

[bobber]

just having this discussion is an improvement from what we all were doing in years gone by.... being AWARE of how we handle fish is the first and biggest step we can take towards improving release mortality