Originally Posted by
Surly Ghillie
mostly right. having just come in from spawning trout, (i do about a million eggs per season ) i'll just add a few cents worth. With all salmonids, when the eggs are 'ripe', they release out of the ovaries into the stomach cavity. if you try to strip the hen before the eggs are released you WILL cause serious damge. once the eggs have releaed from the ovaries, even gentle pressure on the 'soft 'belly which is full of eggs, will cause them to squirt out. gently massage from just behind the head towards the anal fin. if the fish is ready, a pinking ovipostor will extend and the eggs will stream out.
You dont need to milk the cockfish. the sperm is reabsorbed and there are no deliterious effects leaving them alone.
As trout only mature in their 2nd year.... and only live for 5 years, if they were to reabsorb their eggs 2 or 3 times... they'd reach a full life expectancy without any interference. Unhappily that's not entirely true.
The hens CAN reabsorb the eggs and sometimes do. Sometimes they dont and then a few things can happen
1. the eggs can calcify and a hen with 2 seasons of calcified eggs is unlikely to survive into her 4th or 5 th year.
2. The eggs can turn septic. A fish with egg septicemia is a fish waiting to die.
3. sometimes, especially if there is suitable gravel in a place where prevailing winds set up water flow over the shallows, the hens sometimes shed the eggs on their own, though they are unlikely to incubate without a bunch of suplimental conditions.
Basic rule; if the eggs dont flow easily with very gentle massage, then they're not ready and forcing things will just damage the fish.
I would say use your common sense, but experience teaches that is sometimes a comodity that anglersd are remarkably bereft of. I'll be stripping fish again on tuesday, and then again on Friday. If you get your ass over here, Heck & all...,
THATS CORRECT, ONLY MILK WHEN EGGS escape while fighting the fish. One gets GENERAL idea after netting. I however treat the cockfish the same.
Was wanting someone like you to clarify., will still wank cockfish anyways
Handle every situation like a dog.- If you cant hump it, piss on it and walk away. --JASPER.
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