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Originally Posted by Walleyedude
Again, not much there to back up your claim.
"Using bait increases the chance of cryptic mortality, but by different degrees depending on species." So, there's some varying degrees of mortality, due in much bigger part to the type of species (trout) and fishing technique than bait vs. no bait.
"although 10 per cent of fish caught using leeches died soon after release because of hooking damage to the throat and gut." That is readily explainable if you've got anglers rigging with leeches that don't know how to properly remove the hooks, the same is true if you're rigging with a worm or even minnows. Jigging with a leech or a minnow, there's ZERO difference.
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So you expect everybody who fishes with bait to rig it properly - a bit unrealistic? Just watch people in Glenmore for example catching pike from the shore. Terrible set ups, sitting from the rods by far distance, waiting to set the hook after bite indication and you will see tons of pike being pulled with hook in gills or throat and bleeding profusely. Granted, most of them are keeping them so maybe not a big deal but if we talking catch and release half of them would be dead for sure after release back.