Was this the episode he fished with “Alda Nava” in a 17’ aluminium “Great Lakes salmon and trout” ??
If so here is a little correspondence I had with him.
The email and response.
Hello ;
I was recently watching your episode”Great lakes salmon and trout” This episode featured Fishing guide Aldo.
The purpose of this email is to express my concerns of your horrible catch and release techniques. As an educational sport fishing show I would expect a much better example to be presented . Mortality rates on fish that are released properly is approximately 15%.. I would suggest that your poor practices of netting, tossing on floor and handling with fingers in gill area would raise that number by a fair chunk.
As an avid fisherman myself I believe you can and should do better.
Thanks: Ray
Response:
Hi Ray,
Thank you for sending us your concern & constructive criticism from watching the Great Lake Salmon & Trout trolling episode I shot with Aldo Nava, it's appreciated. I agree with you that we did not show the "best" catch & release practices during that episode. To do that, the boat would have had to be slowed down, the fish fought out so it could be managed while remaining in the water and the hook only grabbed with pliers, the fish un-hooked letting swim away without being netted or handled. Unfortunately when a boat is trolling at 2.5-3mph with waves and having multiple lines trolling off downriggers and diving devices this is very difficult. Also when you consider that viewers want to "see" the fish at least briefly, it's tough to do when a fish is not very visible in the water when removing a hook boat-side. I try my best to promote catch & release when indeed fish are released and when fish are kept for eating, we either keep fish in the live well, or dispose of their life in a humane way and ice them. If you have seen tributary shows, especially in BC where we use single barbless hook, we do net fish like salmon & steelhead but keep them in the water, un-hook them and let them swim away. Any full body shots are done very quickly with the fish just lifted for a few seconds horizontally out of the water and released asap.
God bless you,
Italo
-----Original Message-----
From: ray haines [
mailto:raybeeman@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2019 5:20 PM
To: CSF Info <
info@canadian-sportfishing.com>
Subject: Release technique
And there you have it.