Striper mortality

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by JFigliuolo

I think all this will amount to little if any significant results. More people DON'T care than DO. Sadly, it's that simple...

Agree 100%. I would add that if they fish the canal 2x per year or go out on their friends boat and catch a keeper, most people will keep it. I'm constantly asked how many fish I bring home and people look at me funny when I say I throw them all back.

[piemma]

Christ, Rob, I haven't had a treble hook on the back of any of my plugs in 15 years. Those of us who use to fish 100 nights a year and lived through the moratorium knew that we had been injuring fish with the rear treble. Didn't serve any useful purpose anyway as most bass take the plug head on.
I use to wade the reefs in Narraganset all night and the last thing you needed was being waist deep in the water and trying to unhook a 20# fish with trebles swinging all over the place.