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Location: Utah | When you cut a hook do you then try to remove the hook portion still in the fish?
Just curious as we've cut numerous hooks...if we can remove the cut portion we do...more often we don't as we don't want the fish out of the water just to get the cut portion of hook out of it's lip.
As always thanks in advance for any feedback. K2 |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Get the cut hooks out of the fish, but be Quick about it.
Try to get the hooks out while the fish is resting in the net, this will buy you more time to work on the fish.
Do the Best you can.
Has anybody caught a fish with old hooks in it before ?
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | Usually the loose ends will fall out as soon as you cut. But if not, definitely try to remove them if you can do it quickly and without stressing the fish.
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| If you cut enough times in enough places, a vast majority of the time you'll have a hook that can be slipped right out. The ones that the point is still buried somewhere and hasn't poked through yet are no different than removing any other non-cut hook I guess.
I always make sure to get all the pieces out of the fish, but a time or two after I've had to cut every hook into pieces on a fish, I'll let it go and kinda rethink the whole process and hope I got all the pieces out.
Keep cuttin', keep pulling pieces out till you get um all.
-Eric |
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| If you push the hook through then cut behind the barb, you typically will not have any hook left in the fish. I fish myself quite a bit and use barbless for the most part for my own safety, but also don't have to cut hooks very often either...Ben |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | I always try to get out every possible piece of hook I cut off. If not they will be in the fish till the flesh around them rots away and they fall out. I have a hard time watching videos where someone cuts hooks, lets the fish go and says it will be fine while making no effort to remove the pieces of hooks left. Not a good thing to do.
I reason that if they were simply going to fall out I wouldn't have needed to cut the hook in the first place.
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| I would say most of the hook pieces fall out after being snipped. The reason why a lot of hooks are cut is because of the barb on the hook. Once you cut the hook, the remaining piece can now escape the opposite direction where the barb does not get in the way. I can't tell you how many times I have cut hooks and then look for remaining pieces and see absolutely nothing. It's always a good thing to check for remaining pieces and then do your best to get them out, but I believe most remaining pieces do fall out. Just my 2 cents. |
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| I agreewith the last response (just above mine). First tool I grab is my pliers. If I have any trouble what so ever I grab the hook cutters and start cutting. I would say 8 out of 10 times the remaining pieces of hook fall out. I always try to get all the pieces out but usually any movement by the fish and they fall out. After everything is out, I grab the fish- measure - 2 or 3 pictures and back in the water. Total out of water time for fish - no more than 30 - 35 seconds.
Edited by T bone 10/5/2009 10:21 AM
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| I agree with they usually fall out and I try and cut them in such a way that they will. If I can see pieces remaining I always remove them.
To answer a ? asked way up above my partner caught a 42"er last spring with a meps musky killer, cheapy leader, and about a foot of braided line hooked in the corner of it's mouth. Fish hit boatside and looked healthy but I was very glad to be able to remove the lure. I also once caught a 38" pike on topwater by hooking some mono line looped around it's head. It had just a single hook in it's mouth. Never actually "hooked" the fish, it was wierd. Fish also seemed healthy. |
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| 100% barbless hooks for 4 years now...easier to bury the hook into the muskies' jaw...just keep constant tension when fighting fish and you won't lose any more than you would with barbed hooks...protects the fish...easy release...protects you / boat partner from cutting a trip short and a drive to the nearest e.r. to remove a 5/O deeply burried in your hand / arm / wherever... |
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Question on snipped hooks still in fish