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#1367585 - 04/21/08 12:15 PM
Re: Smallie Regulation St. Cloud to Coon Rapids - your input
[Re: carmike]
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Sr FishingMN Family
Registered: 08/08/03
Posts: 529
Loc: St. Cloud MN , USA
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It's always a shame, and it makes a guy feel horrible, but I guess the only way for me to have zero impact on the fishery is to only use the lake for skipping rocks and sun tanning. Yes there are some lost due to hooking mortality.... but overall survival based on all of the work done out on the river has been in the range of 50-75% from year to year.... Through age 9 adults... Besides..... if you release it it still has a chance.... if you cook it, it doesn't.  Harvest would still be considerably higher if the reg was not in place and certainly even hooking mortality accounts for far less than actual harvest would... Typical hooking mortality rates are in the neighborhood of .02-10% of overall mortality.
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#1367844 - 04/21/08 02:49 PM
Re: Smallie Regulation St. Cloud to Coon Rapids - your input
[Re: smallie_hawgin]
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HotSpotOutdoors Family
Registered: 03/10/07
Posts: 263
Loc: Saint Cloud area
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Very true. I have no problem with the regs, and I don't think I should be able to keep the fish because it's going to die. It just makes a guy feel horrible to see a 19''er float away belly up.
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#1396279 - 05/10/08 03:13 PM
Re: Smallie Regulation St. Cloud to Coon Rapids - your input
[Re: fishuhalik]
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Registered: 06/23/07
Posts: 19
Loc: Confluence of the Rum and Sipp...
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