Some interesting thoughts on catch and release.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I've mentioned this study before and I think it was a university study at some school in Ohio.

Possibly.   

I'm running 1960's vintage memory equipment here, so some details get a bit convoluted at times.

[snagged in outlet 3]

48 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Possibly.   

I'm running 1960's vintage memory equipment here, so some details get a bit convoluted at times.

1961 here.  I just never can find it.  I think it was in an old Pennsylvania fishing magazine my dad used to get.   That magazine was the first info I got about bass fishing.  Then I ordered bass magazine.  

[netboy]

I caught the same trout 3 times within an hour. He had a very distinct heron scar on his back.

[tjm]

yep I've caught the same trout three times in about an hour too, and on the same fly.  Two trout in a pool , catch one twice and the other three times. Fish don't have very big brains and I've read that they don't feel pain from the hook, so there's not a big incentive for them to learn.