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Jon,
Don’t feel like you can’t kick in the membership fee and become a member of the HiLakers. You will love the group, I encourage you!!Yea Brian I had to throw that little balloon thing in there after remembering you GPS wavepoint was at a balloon on a planting trip 😆
Ok I will respond to this but not make this as excuses.
GPS’s don’t always get signals they are very limited when it comes to Canyons, Draws, tree cover especially.
Having worked for the DNR we would routinely mark trails, roads,borders, do surveys and not always mark on the ribbon. Often color of ribbons dictates the usage i.e. blue- timber sale boundry, or sale location, white-culvert location or tree surveys. Having said that it was never done in Wilderness areas or areas like Wild Sky Wilderness that doesn’t fit the traditional Wilderness designation.
For me I have noticed that baloons. or helium filled foil baloons are much more of a problem as they seem to be everywhere.It depends on what the flagging was used for. The flagging might have been used for a person making their trail into a lake where they had to hit a certain spot otherwise they may hit a cliff or vine maple patch. Or the flagging could have been used by a hunter to find his kill site. Either way the person probably should have retrieved their ribbon on the trip out, but then again maybe they plan to return. There is also surveys done in wilderness areas to survey tree population, pest infestation, etc. and sometimes flags are left to allow the person to come back to the same spot to re survey.
That was a very intresting article!! Some parts especially caught my eye. like: Studies show that when fish are hooked in the lips or jaw area (shallow hooked), mortality is negligible, typically less than 1% (4,5). I have noticed that some lakes at different times of the year are more aggressive and would think water temp is the main reason. This in turn would possibly contribute to how the fish was hooked. With this being said it sounds like a person try to get the fish in as fast(so called-horse it in) as possible to release it?
Then there was the table that showed the LM Bass have the highest mortality rate. These fish are probably highest catch and released fish in the U.S.
I will have to do a search on what it says about fish dying after a substantial time from being released.
With this being said i don’t think I have heard what the optimal number of fish to be caught to satisfy our lake surveys is.this is what it says under catch and release in the regs
Catch -and-Releas e Fish ing
A type of fishing where all of the fish caught
are immediately released back into the water.HOW TO RELEASE FISH
When you need to release a fish, there are some special
precautions you can take to give it the best chance of surviving:
· Minimize handling by leaving the fish in the water.
· Do not net your fish – but if you must, use a soft,
knotless net or rubber mesh net. Knotless nets are now
required in fly-fishing only areas and freshwater areas
with selective gear rules.
· Use a hook remover (dehooker) when hooks are
imbedded in the mouth or jaw.
· If a fish has swallowed the hook, cut the leader.
· Keep fingers away from the eyes and gills of the fish.tough to get an accurate fish weight and length measurement when the fish is not taken from the water.
SALMON and TROUT HANDLING RULES
FRESHWATER: “It is unlawful to totally remove salmon, steelhead, or Dolly Varden/bull trout from the water if it is
unlawful to retain those fish, or if the angler subsequently releases the salmon, steelhead, Dolly Varden, or bull trout.”Well lets see if I can’t injest a little humor into your response. It is quite obvious that he kept the fish and that I was having fun with him.
But I like the information you are providing. I would appreciate it you could be a presenter at one of the Hi-Lakers meetings on the proper catch and release procedure should be using. It is strange that a fair amount of lakes or more so rivers have gone to catch and release. When instead of helping the fish they would be hurting and thus reducing the population.As with a catch and release(say Lenore) area people catch and release many fish. I have however heard of areas where if the limit is 2 fish that you keep the first 2 you catch. I also know of areas in the sound where if you catch a fish it cannot be brought out of the water and if it is you get a ticket. Perhaps this topic should be move to a discussion thread with “catch and release” as the topic. So Sandy there studies out there have addressed this particular topic? Perhaps this it the time to do a poll thread where we could find out how many anglers actually keep all the fish they catch, catch and release after measuring,weighing, etc. I am glad you opened a whole so called “can of worms” for discussion.
