Regulation Changes

[obifishkenobi]

if a fish that has a 4 year life span is described as catchable at 1 and 1/2 years old and has a plus 50% mortality rate
how would 90% of them live to be generally 4 years old?
#fuzzy math

I misspoke using "old age" should have said natural causes, the point is that anglers at a very popular high pressure fishery with a lot of catch and release have a minimal effect on fish mortality.

A lot of that depends on whether the anglers are using bait or not.

https://idfg.idaho.gov/article/henrys-la...r-20222023
Check out this link, there is an article about a study at Henrys Lake conducted recently about catch and release where they used bait as one of their methods of capture, It doesn't say but I suspect that they cut the line on deep hooked fish and didn't yank out any hooks, but they only had one mortality out of over 150 fish and it was a fish hooked in the mouth. Interesting article that I have sighted in the past when arguing with people on face book that claim I am destroying their fishery by catching and releasing dozens of fish in a day at Henrys.