walleyes have the highest mortality rate they can't seem to survive the hot oil
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walleyes have the highest mortality rate they can't seem to survive the hot oil
this is something I wonder...
I think of some heavily fished water here in pa, such as spring creek in center county. This stream gets fished hard and is not a particularly wide or deep stream. No doubt large amounts of fish are caught every day, especially this time of year. Likely the same fish are caught multiple times in a week.
I feel like if mortality rates were as high as some have stated that we would see this evidence along the stream. I rarely ever have seen a dead fish in this stream. Sure predators probably take their share but I just feel like I should be seeing a lot more dead fish considering the amount of angling pressure on this water
Some added thoughts... If there are 100 fish caught every day on the heavy pressured part of the stream, and 10 fish died a day from that.. Then in the course of a week you would have 70 dead fish along the water way.
That's a significant amount of fish every week to be losing and I bet more than 100 fish are being caught a day there especially this time of year.