Laker-Saver Spin off thread

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I'm a bit curious, having caught a lot of lakers in FG, I've never had a bloated Lake Trout, or one that couldn't descend under his own power. Nor have I ever seen a bloated laker stuck on the surface that was released. I was under the assumption that lakers had the ability to release air, hence all the air bubbles that surface when fighting a big laker. Not that this is a bad thing and I'm certainly in favor of helping the fish in anyway I can, just wish a biologist could weigh in on this and answer the question of necessity.
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