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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | I found this whole discussion very interesting with regards to rec. fisheries management. I've linked it to start at the handling stuff, but overall I left feeling empathetic to folks that chase the really big stripers and and their concerns for the future of their fishery.
https://youtu.be/fAZ7u9orueQ?si=kyPGp-Ap_mlBr2tr&t=3274
The release mortality and handling suggestions particularly relevant to musky: reduce number of hooks for quick release/barbless, keep in water and so on. The key point: fish size affects handling time (bigger=more time handled), and handling time is the most important predictor of survival. So bigger fish get handled more and therefore have higher potential for mortality. The takeaway is collectively anglers need to embrace reducing handling. Pete Maina and "Musky Man" Larry Ramsell spoke about this in a recent Ugly Pike podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-273-pete-maina-larry-r...
The absolute most significant point in the Striper vid from my perspective for our native reproducing muskies in Canada is around the 30:43 point. Muskies have evolved to grow and reproduce to a certain maximum reproductive age and size without fishing mortality. As said in the discussion, we need to ensure we don't add too much fishing mortality - what that is has been reached in some systems in that past and we've managed to halt it to some extent with regulations relevant to the technology of the time (1990s). As I've posted before and Larry and Pete allude to, recent technology developments are potentially taking us to that breaking point, and we need to do something about it.
It is only going to get worse:
https://muskyinsider.com/blogs/past-newsletters/45lb-nj-musky-sonar-...
Edited by Angling Oracle 4/6/2026 1:18 PM
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Fishing is inherintly bad for the fishes. We should all do the best we can to ensure that the release process is quick and does as little damage to the fish as possible.
Much more than that and we start to attack each other. |
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| Slamr - 4/6/2026 2:49 PM
Much more than that and we start to attack each other.
Too late Slamr. It will be sooner than you think, that you can have a big screen on your boat. It will show you the entire underwater lay out, and show you places all over the lake where fish have been caught, as well as where there currently are fish, and how big they are. It will give you suggestions on what bait to use based on what has worked on that lake and that spot. You don't think so? 360 live sonar already here. One boat network already here. Lake mapping integrated and add in OnX fish and all the data collected from all the users as well as data scrubbed from all the web sites out there with pictures of fish and the meta data in those pictures. AI puts it all together in one neat package so that your boat will take you to the fish and tell you which lure to throw, and what direction and what retrieve to use.
I know which side of this fence I'm on. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | We hook a small fish horse it in don't net pop the hooks out don't admire it or take photos and back in the water. Large get played out to take the steam out of them net admire them take photos and gee I hope it makes it OK. |
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