Holdover C & R Survival Rate

[empirekitchen]

we always use a wet towel when touching any fish , if its going to be kept we IKE them , if not then a gentle slide back in to water to release them . Never used a treble , in fact normally we file the barbs off the single hooks , that way you only have to keep the weight on the fish , once the weight comes off the fish falls in the boat

[numbskull]

Here is a link with some data Catch and Release Fishing Mortality Study

Here is a study (FW Striped Bass) that mentions temp effects. There is a better one somewhere that I can't find.
http://web.vims.edu/GreyLit/MDNR/ftm016?svr=www