Wulff, You know dead fish don't float long down our way, turtles and cottonmouth like bream sushi, taste like chicken.
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Wulff, You know dead fish don't float long down our way, turtles and cottonmouth like bream sushi, taste like chicken.
Good point. I shudder every time I hear the word cottonmouth. Ew. Nasty. My skin is crawling right now :)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9...0/rainbow2.jpg
Notice the large scar and exposed gill of this rainbow trout. I think all fish can handle some trauma to their gills.
At the same time, I caught a cutt-bow back in '09 that did not make it on a size 18 dry.. I tried to revive it, without much luck, as luck would have it, a thunderstorm crept up, so I put him in a fish hold (so that way he could try to swim) and left him near the edge of the current. After the storm I returned, and he was still upside down.
He made a good dinner. So it all depends on how deep the hook went and where exactly the hook went I think.
Paul
If the fish is bleeding from the gills, you might as well eat it, because, short of a miracle, it is not going to survive. If you don't, the turtles, and other predators will.