My experience: Caught three Soapies between 40-45cm in 10 minutes, released them all where they were caught. Pulled the hook on a 10kg+ Jew one cold winters morning (after getting on the water on my own at 3am, and nearly freezing to death laying on the floor of my boat in the foetal position, another story for another day) couldn't get another hit there to saving my life, I must have worked that spot for an hour. I think Bass are just too aggressive and instinctively must hit a lure, I release all Bass, and if they're there they hit. Bream can be finicky, I've got some spots in the Hawkesbury that are one fish spots, creep up and score one, and move on. Found a school of EP the other day, nailed two, and they shut down. We release Yella, shut them down, come back in 30 minutes and get another one, we once tested out how many could fit in my live bait tank, and got 6 in there from the same "honey hole" maybe not releasing them straight away kept the bite going. Interesting topic.