Not entirely true. You will typically have a 90%+ survival rate on release when using circle hooks. However, with J hooks you tend to have a lower survival rate due to hook location and bleeding. J hooks can frequently cause both internal and external trauma and bleeding, which reduces survival (not surprisingly). This is why it is so important to use non offset circle hooks, especially on fish you plan to release (IMHO I think anyone catching and releasing sharks should use circles exclusively).crashmister wrote:CE; This thing jumped the tracks while it was still in the station. What this guy does not realise is we can read also. His entire argument about C&R is unfounded. In fact the only fish that don't have a 90+ % survival rate are deep water caught fish. Barotrauma or the rapid asent to the surface causes the fish to bloat. Venting helps but they still suffer a higher mortality rate than surface caught fish. Anything caught above 30' in depth does not have this problem. In fact outside of deep water caught fish I have yet to find a case where C&R did not have a positive result. Considering this is BOATLESS FISHING everything caught and released from SHORE has over a 90% chance of survival. Including SHARKS! He also does not know that while I don't fish for Shark I actively fight to protect the rights of others to do so. He has no clue of my 30+ year history of diving with, photographing, tagging, and interaction with sharks either. Personally I think he's just trolling for an argument.
We are speaking more generally in this case; however, factors such as water temp and fight time can also have a large effect on post release survival.
