Puget Sound
- Thread starter Stonedfish
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Last time I was down there walking the beach the fort was there and there was also a tent. There was a big bonfire going as well.
I chatted up one of the guys there. He said he had walked there from Port Orchard on Hwy 16 and got questioned by WSP as to why he was walking on the highway.
It’s become a rather interesting place, under both sides of the bridge.
SF
Unpopular opinion, but the way I see it if he is eating them, I’d rather they die to that than them being the estimated 5-10% that die from catch and release. I know WDFW manages for maximum sustainable yield (which I think is dumb) but if the regs say you can keep 5/day as soon as they hit freshwater, and most of us on this board never keep any ever, there must be some room to let an unhoused dude eat one or so a day from the salt. Cheaper than us funding his meals at a shelter, and he’s catching them himself.
Difference between a homeless dude under a bridge, and a homesteader, is one bridge and about 130 years.
I don’t think mortality on catch and release cutts in the salt is 10% or even close to 5% in my opinion. I also know it’s not zero.
I know for a fact I killed at least one I caught and released over the past 10 years, because I found it dead. How it died was the odd part….
Some could have also obviously died after swimming away.
SF
I know for a fact I killed at least one I caught and released over the past 10 years, because I found it dead. How it died was the odd part….
Some could have also obviously died after swimming away.
SF
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I was basing that on the two studies I had seen for salmonids, but to my knowledge neither broke it out by method, barb vs barbless, or river/lake/salt. I probably haven’t killed 1/10th or 1/20th of them either but I do see many instances of such shockingly bad handling that it makes me think there are many bringing the mortality rate up.
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
That looks like the Carver that once belonged to my coworker.
@ STONEDFISH; can you confirm the maker? (Hoping you saw it somewhere on the boat)
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
Okies.. thanks
5-10%? I wonder where that data came from? Outdated data perhaps before barbless and rubber nets standard practice? If you drag them on shore then I can see that, but a lot of time our flies fall out when they come into the net, quick photo and off they go. I don’t think mortality rate is that high honestly, not from us anyway.
Here’s one I found:
Looks like the NPS pages with the studies I had read previously are no longer online.
Yeah the methods they’re caught by and handling techniques varies so much I can see mortality rates would have a wide range.
For SRC and the way we C&R I have no qualms about my current practice, they’re tough SOBs often swimming around with wounds that would hospitalize any of us.
Fished my local beach on Thursday for maybe an hour and noticed the same thing. It seemed like the smaller fry were in much larger schools.
Slow on the sound today. Fished about 5 hours and landed a handful of SRC and a couple of rezzies. Just never found the volume of fish I did Friday, even fishing a couple of the same spots. The bright sun probably didn’t help but it was a beautiful morning on the water.
A couple of the SRC and a rezzie.
A couple of the SRC and a rezzie.
Walked the beach Sunday from 9-10 and found a couple Cutts. This one hung out for the photo shoot. I think I’ve only ever sight fished one of these things, other than jumpers. They blend in well.
Second session around 6pm did not go as well. There was a sea lion patrolling one section and this guy enjoying his perfectly legal catch. Apparently there are good size flounder out here.
Second session around 6pm did not go as well. There was a sea lion patrolling one section and this guy enjoying his perfectly legal catch. Apparently there are good size flounder out here.
That's a decent-sized Starry Flounder. Very cool!
Breakfast of champions for otters and osprey....
Maybe the study uses one of the bad words.
Anyway, this was a new one for me. I visited a friend in muddy lower reaches of MA13 over the weekend. Saturday AM I met a very cool guy at a public boat launch and had a fun morning out on his boat. Later that day at my friend’s I saw a jumper off the beach, and since my rigged rod was right there figured it was worth a cast or two. But I hung solidly up on the bottom, and found my line must have drifted into an oyster’s gape and gotten firmly clamped. The sucker wouldn’t let go, and I had to do a bit of shell sculpting to free my line. Sorry little buddy! 
