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Originally Posted by schmedlap

My experience exactly. Of course, there is the odd one that's somehow "hooked badly". I had a 5 lb rainbow in the Bow, on a spun wet fly with single barbless, mouth hooked, played pretty quickly, out maybe 20 seconds tops, that could not be revived, one time (legally obligated, of course, to watch it float away for gull food). Had a 37" Pike (and they are way "tougher" than trout), out of the water very briefly, not severely hooked, that ended up floating away to be gull food. It depends on the particular fish, at the particular time, and probably the occasional "hook just hit the spot" ?
We caught the same tagged Walleye 3 times one weekend - swam away strongly each time. Caught the same one again 3 months later in the same spot (exceptionally dumb fish?) and it swam away again.
So...? I'll keep on the C&R routine, except for whacking the odd legal Walleye or Burbot for the pan.

Didn't the regs also say not to waste the flesh of gamefish? The regs can be pretty misleading