Anybody get their On The Water yet?

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Originally Posted by JohnR

Not to be a thread killer here but this is good discussion. Anyone remember the specifics of Paul Diodati's mortality study, lo so many years ago? He documented an 8% C&R mortaility on striped ones. If in the process of weighing them and handling them if they handled them in this way, wouldn't the mortality rate go way beyond the 8%?

I have not read the article yet so I can only go by some of what I see in this thread and I have not read anything beyond a summary of Diodati's study and that has been a few years on that..

Just thinking...

You are right on John. They had a tank and hooked then released then studied the bass for weeks afterward. And how many time have you caught bass with a leader and a gut hook in it that just ate your plug or, in the good ol days of just last year for many, your herring?

Again, the bass is just a different animal with different physical qualities that make able to survive the stresses of living and feeiding in the very turbulant and rough world of the inter-tidal zone.