Through-The-Gill Hook Removal

[SpyderLady]

Inside Angles

Through-The-Gill Hook Removal

Amazingly Easy & Effective

By Doug Stange, , Editor In Chief


Among the most impressive learning experiences for someone like me, who has been writing about catch-and-release fishing for more than 20 years, was hands-on instruction in how easily and effectively hooks can be removed from a fish's gullet.

Scroll down the page for pics and instructions.

www.in-fisherman.com/magazine/articles/if2806_HookRemoval/index.html

[frisky]

I love learnin new tricks thanks

[califgirl]

Wow, that is amazing, thanks, I like catch and release also.

[olhillbilly]

I tried this last night onna dead drum I found next to the bank. It hadda hook and a worm still in its mouth. Prolly was caught yesterday evening.

[skydaddy]

Thanks Spydie. I will try this the next time I have a fish deep hooked. We do a lot of releases of under size and oversize Redfish and under size Speckle Trout and I wonder sometime if the fish actually makes it. By the way Hill, did it work for you?

[olhillbilly]

Yup, it just slipped right out. Worm and all. Course the fish didnt mind. Beins, the state he was in. But I think it mite work onna live fish just as well.

Tell ya tho. Since I been usin circle hooks, I aint had this problem. I aint never had one swaller a hook. It always hooks em in the corner of the mouth.

They do take a lil gettin used to, tho. Ya kinda gotta retrain yerself on hook sets. But it dang sure pays off in the end. I dont see me goin back to J-hooks unless thats all I got.