laguna
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I've sometimes unhooked silver fish with a hook poking through its eye socket when float fishing.
Has this ever happened to you? More to the point, and I'm still on the fence regards this but; are barbless hooks to blame?
Hook in the eye, usually caused by panicking fish thrashing about when float fishing, I cant remember back to a time when it happened with barbed hooks and I'm pretty sure it never happened when ledgering on tight lines either.
I suppose a thrashing self-hooked fish will panic, twist and turn causing variable tensions on the line before you get it out of the water, which could in theory, cause the hook point to come out and back in again only to re-engage elsewhere in the back of an eye socket or some other part of its mouth.
On other occasions when float fishing for pasty carp up in the water, sometimes (rarely) the hook has gone all the way through their mouth - hook eye, line and all.
Panicking fish on a slack line or barbless to blame, bit of both?
Has this ever happened to you? More to the point, and I'm still on the fence regards this but; are barbless hooks to blame?
Hook in the eye, usually caused by panicking fish thrashing about when float fishing, I cant remember back to a time when it happened with barbed hooks and I'm pretty sure it never happened when ledgering on tight lines either.
I suppose a thrashing self-hooked fish will panic, twist and turn causing variable tensions on the line before you get it out of the water, which could in theory, cause the hook point to come out and back in again only to re-engage elsewhere in the back of an eye socket or some other part of its mouth.
On other occasions when float fishing for pasty carp up in the water, sometimes (rarely) the hook has gone all the way through their mouth - hook eye, line and all.
Panicking fish on a slack line or barbless to blame, bit of both?
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