Recycling the Resource: Tag Return

[SAUERKRAUT]

Originally Posted by Tagger

funny .. I've tagged a lot of fish but have never caught a tagged fish .. Only one of my tags have been retired . They say less than 1% are recovered .. Nice work Alan .

Thanks Tagger. I stick about 20 tags a year myself aand I haven't had a return in several years. I use the ALS spaghetti tags. I confine my tagging to the extremes of the season when the water is cold, and the fish can cope with out of water handling time better. I also tend to tag the larger fish, and only fish that are single hooked, and landed in a place that I can easily handle them (preferably on a big blob of seaweed or a low tide tide pool. And always when I am solo or at least not around Numbskull, who ridicules me awfully when I go through these shannanagans,

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by SAUERKRAUT

Thanks Tagger. I stick about 20 tags a year myself aand I haven't had a return in several years. I use the ALS spaghetti tags. I confine my tagging to the extremes of the season when the water is cold, and the fish can cope with out of water handling time better. I also tend to tag the larger fish, and only fish that are single hooked, and landed in a place that I can easily handle them (preferably on a big blob of seaweed or a low tide tide pool. And always when I am solo or at least not around Numbskull, who ridicules me awfully when I go through these shannanagans,

Yes ,, I use to tag in only one place where the fish were decent size and the water fairly calm . I tagged them right in the water . You know when they are really done and kind of turn on their side for you anyway . I was measuring ,, not weighing ..The only fish I had retired was caught 11 miles away 4 days later .

[nightfighter]

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...gged-fish.html


Jimmy Fee and I have had fish that were tagged at almost the same time/place as yours, Alan.

[SAUERKRAUT]

Jimmy Fee and I have had fish that were tagged at almost the same time/place as yours, Alan.[/QUOTE

I'd be interested to know if your tag return comes back a Delaware Bay fish origin also.

[chefchris401]

Pretty cool catching a tagged fish, every year my pops or I get at least one in the rivers near the house, usually 26 to 34" fish. in 2009 we got 6 fish all tagged, a few different tagging groups.

How do you go about joining a tagging program? Something ive always wanted to get involved in.

you have doctors handwriting btw.