A friend sent me this article on hooking mortality. It is important.
http://bakke-nativefish.blogspot.com/2010/12/single-barbless-hooks-required-for.html
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3 users commented in " Barbed VS Barbless "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIf fisherman are counting on barbless versus barbed to maintain or improve fishing we are doomed. The difference in mortality between barbless and barbed flies is 2%. That is insignificant in the entire scheme of things.
Habitat improvement and size regulations along with catch and release will help fish stocks much more.
The barb vs barbless research and discussion will rage on as it has for years. Improve fishing? Does that mean improve catching, more fish, bigger fish, better habitat? I think people define improved fishing differently so that discussion tends to stand still. I have fished habitat improvement sections that were beautifully done, where fish were easy to target. I also have fished ugly artificial looking stream improvement sections that all you would catch were snags. Both were loaded with fish. Which one improved fishing. I think maybe they both did. The “Air Time” data was what I found most interesting about the article. I had never seen numbers and times that applied to mortality in fish being kept out of water while practicing catch and release fishing. Thanks for the comment.
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these debates are tough because there are so many other variables that come into play. like how long and hard the fish are fought and how long they are out of water while they are being unhooked. sometimes not handling a fish properly does a lot more damage than the hook injury itself. and in some rare cases the act of releasing the fish at all is what seems to be harming the “quality” of fishing. take the upper kinni for example. in my opinion i think there are just plain way to many fish. some people think this is nuts, but i think they are overpopulated and there is not enough food source for the 9,000+ trout per running mile on the upper….keeping the general population way to small.
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