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Originally Posted by FLAME ENVY
Nice Rainbow.
Not to be a downer but the mortality rate for a fish released after being attached to a stringer for any duration is going to be high. Many jurisdictions don't allow this in their regulations as it's considered culling (replacing one fish of differing size for another). Although I have never used a stringer, I believe you should be committed to keeping the fish once you place it on there.
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I'm well aware of the mortality factor, which is why I kept her as long as I did. She was chugging all over the 10' wide creek that empties into where I was fishing and took off like a shot out the creek mouth. She'll be just fine.
As to Slava's mentioning the ice... I've seen people out on 1.5" and less of ice, on Otisco Lake before. I consider that tantamount to suicide.
Skaneateles has only frozen completely a couple of times in my lifetime,though there's often ice on a few very shallow areas. That why I go there - I can freeze my ass off just as easily _and_catch fish from shore and not have to worry about falling through the ice. I fell through as a kid and I want no part of it. Short of riding a 4-wheeler out out to a shanty with a wood stove in it, I probably never will ice fish.