Catskills - No bridge too high

[dcabarle]

Looking around the net, I found a photo that got me thinking about the relationship cats and fish have.

If a cat falls a short distance, it lands on its feet (most of the time). If you throw one out of your 4th story apartment window or say, off a bridge, who knows what might happen. So I'm wondering... If you throw a hundred or so trout 35-40 feet into 2 - 3 feet of water my questions are:

• what portion of a trouts body hits the water first.
• how many of them survive
• how many of them have that pea brain of theirs damaged enough whereas they can't remember to eat and die off anyway.
• what type of internal damage might one sustain

I've heard about how they stock the Pequest by dumping the fish off the bridge. Kinda made me cringe. This bridge is 4 times higher than the pequest bridge!

Anyone ever wonder why the stockies are so easy to catch? It's because when they fell of the bridge onto their noggins, the hit made them senseless.

I suppose this is why we shouldn't mind when we see guys using treble hooks, some fish have already been through worse.