"rw" wrote in message
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rw wrote:
Tom Nakashima wrote:

I've been watching the "New Fly Fisher" which broadcast Sunday
mornings. Yesterday I learned that if you turn a fish upside down
while they're in the water, they'll lose equilibrium and won't struggle.
Makes it easy to unhook and release them.
-tom


It works with trout, but (in my experience) with whitefish.

Should be: NOT with whitefish.


I guess you know the question's coming...
Why not whitefish, are their octavo-lateralis system different than trout?
-tom