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Author Topic: Mortality Rates  (Read 4709 times)

bentrod

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Re: Mortality Rates
« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2009, 12:25:10 PM »

I wonder why it says "bait has always thought to have been the killer".  Returning salmon in freshwater cannot digest anything, whether it's natural or artificial bait.  The fish may be more apt to swallow the bait further hence a deeper hook injury, but it is not the bait doing the injuring. 
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