Cold water vs warm water release and mortality rates?

Wondered what the thoughts and experiences were of others here are re: cold water vs warm water release?

A comment by paumanok and the releasing of bass got me thinking. We as fishermen are careful to release fish withut hurting them if we're not keeping. A certain % do die anyway, that's just the way it is.

I feel that they're more likely to survive when the water is colder, but that's only my experience. Let's hear what you guys have to say.

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Originally Posted by DarkSkies

Wondered what the thoughts and experiences were of others here are re: cold water vs warm water release?

A comment by paumanok and the releasing of bass got me thinking. We as fishermen are careful to release fish withut hurting them if we're not keeping. A certain % do die anyway, that's just the way it is.

I feel that they're more likely to survive when the water is colder, but that's only my experience. Let's hear what you guys have to say.

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Dark, in the other post you talked about a bleeding fish. It's my experience that if the water temps are high, say 70's, a bleeding fish has a poor chance of survival.

I think that Mortality rates do go up in warmer water due to lower oxygen levels in warmer water. I think that the mortality studies are flawed because they put captured fish into a tank and wait for them to die. that can't be as good as releasing them back into their natural environment.