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	Name:	Lee Gantt -
	Subject:	Floating Stripes
	Date:	9/8/2010 11:46:10 AM

After reading this thread, I was quite alarmed to say the least so I starting making calls. In talking with Jim Parramore he told me that he is almost positive that the fish that people are seeing floating are the result of either catch and release fish of fish that could have been hung but got off during the fight. I completely quit striper fishing during the summer on Lake Martin a couple of years ago after I quit guiding because I got tired of killing every fish we caught. The pricnciple of catch and realease has been shown not to be effective on Lake Martine during the summer because of delayed mortality, period! This is what is happening to these fish is Delayed Mortality. Even if the fish swims off and does not die instantly as most schoolie fish do, the lactic acid build up does not dimish in the fish's body and eventually kills the fish. It might be one day or three but it is going to happen in the majority of fish. We are now working with the State to establish a season on stripers where if you catch one, you keep it! Once you catch your limit you are done fishing for the day. This is the only way to correct this thing and still maintain the trophy fishery that Lake Martin has become.