11-12-2007, 12:34 AM
Good lookin' fish, and it sounds like you had a good time.
Don't mean to offend anyone, but I would not recommend laying those spawning browns down on the bank like that. As is the nature of any fish, they are going to flop around. When a fish flops around on dirty, rocky, dry ground, they are going to lose some of their protective coat, and I'm certain their mortality rate goes up.
Especially when you consider they are in the spawn, probably the most critical point of the year in determining the longevity of the fish population of the Weber.
Don't mean to get anyone upset at all, we just need to take good care of the fish we catch, or we won't be catching them for long. Don't take this the wrong way at all...
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Don't mean to offend anyone, but I would not recommend laying those spawning browns down on the bank like that. As is the nature of any fish, they are going to flop around. When a fish flops around on dirty, rocky, dry ground, they are going to lose some of their protective coat, and I'm certain their mortality rate goes up.
Especially when you consider they are in the spawn, probably the most critical point of the year in determining the longevity of the fish population of the Weber.
Don't mean to get anyone upset at all, we just need to take good care of the fish we catch, or we won't be catching them for long. Don't take this the wrong way at all...
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