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    Posted: 10 February 2016 at 07:30
This year here in MT upper Missouri river ( above fort peck ) . You NEED to put in for a permit to Keep paddlefish. Still have to buy the tag to fish but you have to be drawn to KEEP one. Last year opining day saw 2000 fisherman at "Fred" there is a 500 fish quota it was filled the first week. Every one complained NOW only 500 fisherman will be able to keep fish, the rest get to SNAG" and release I guess.
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wonder how many snagged fish that are released live?   one in ten? or less
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Many seem to think it doesn't hurt them, including MTFWP. I was raised to not play with my food, so I don't do catch and release.

I've had this discussion, with many local fly-fishermen, they claim 100 fish days and brag, they released them all. I point out, on many local rivers, limit is three fish, when I take first three fish landed, I kill less fish than them. Best case, I've heard is under ideal conditions, 90% of released fish live and many still take a few days to recover. When it's hot or fish is over stressed, survival goes down by half.
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I release all fish. and I use barbless hooks and try to land fish quick and release with fish in water. But big fish, like paddlefish fight hard and long. So even released with out mouth/gill damage, I think the exhaustion kills most.
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