Ned and other finesse baits causing deep hooking?

[dtrs5kprs]

Just one more thing in life I refuse to wring my hands and gnash my teeth over.

[Old plug]

I must confess this moring and again this afternoon I was using a outfit that transmitted the maxium touch to me. I was using a 7 ft Cherrywood HD spinning rod with 10lb test braid on it. It was equal to 2 lbs test Dia. That was so senitive I could feel the jig drag on rock as it dropped from ledge to ledge sometimes 25 ft or better away. The main reason that tiny dia keeps you in contact with your line. I do not use braid much. But I do like it on this outfit. I can go bass fishing then turn around and put a small crappie jig on there and fish that real easy. And I may just do that after we get back from Wally World.

[David Unnerstall]

Have seen a bunch with a perch or jumo gizz stuck sideways in them too. Even nature rolls snake eyes once in a while.

Bottom line...only way to guarantee you don't hurt one is to not catch it. Lot of folks are doing no damage at all to the fish population every day.

That is what I do...every time I fish.

[Champ188]

Fish are very tough. Walk through a trout park some afternoon-evening and count the carcasses on the bottom after a fun day of gut-hook and release.

The colossal difference in that trout park and the bass in Table Rock is that the bass get no assistance from man in replenishing the ones that die. Those trout are a 100% put-and-take fishery.

[Chief Grey Bear]

The colossal difference in that trout park and the bass in Table Rock is that the bass get no assistance from man in replenishing the ones that die. Those trout are a 100% put-and-take fishery.

Yeah that is the point people are try to make.

And it's even worse in the rivers and streams being of smaller populations.

The reason I used trout parks was the correlation of gut hook deaths.

We all want to think that because they swam away, they are ok. That's not always the case.

[Champ188]

We all want to think that because they swam away, they are ok. That's not always the case.

Couldn't agree more with this. My personal belief is that a fish left with a hook anywhere along its digestive tract --- from its throat to the far other end --- is pretty much a dead soldier. Not a biologist by any means --- just going by what I've heard and read.

[Guest]

Out of the 100+ bass we caught & released, only 2 of them died from gut hooking.

I can live with 2%, others cannot.

You can't totally eliminate gut hooking with any lure. Just the way it works.

It happens to all of us.

[Ham]

Smallies seem to be a lot worse about getting gut hooked than LMB and Spots. The crazy things are in a hurry to swallow. Most likely driven by concerns of have dinner stolen from them by a sibling or cousin. It is a lot worse if someone is not paying attention, but its going to happen sometimes not matter what. I hate it, but that doesn't change the facts.

[5bites]

Fish are very tough. Walk through a trout park some afternoon-evening and count the carcasses on the bottom after a fun day of gut-hook and release.

And if I gut shoot a robin and a grizzly bear the results will vary.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Out of the 100+ bass we caught & released, only 2 of them died from gut hooking.

I can live with 2%, others cannot.

You can't totally eliminate gut hooking with any lure. Just the way it works.

It happens to all of us.

So you gut hooked 100 fish but only 2 died?

Or 100% of your gut hooked fish died?