Hooks: True turn,gamagatzu,other?

Mister twister Loc: Foxworth,Ms.

True turn,gamagatzu,other?

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Gamakatsu. And I ordered 100 #8 barbless circle hooks from Cabela's a couple years ago. I don't know the manufacturer, but they're good strong sharp hooks. Use em all the time for trout.

Mister twister Loc: Foxworth,Ms.

Well I’ve had really good luck with true turn. I learned to fish with a larger hook to. Always used a 3 0 till I discovered 4 and 5 0 served me better. And yeah I spelled the other one wrong.

Dehy Loc: Jacksonville, Florida

I like the true turn also but fish with many kinds and brands of hooks. One thing I like about the true turns is they will disintegrate fast if you hook a fish deep and need to cut line and leave the hook.

Mister twister Loc: Foxworth,Ms.

Now that’s a good topic for discussion. I have released fish with an embedded hook but does the fish live, like to think so.

threeCs Loc: Allen Texas

Mister twister wrote:

Now that’s a good topic for discussion. I have released fish with an embedded hook but does the fish live, like to think so.

I do not know if the fish will live but I have been advised all my life to just cut the line and release. Been told that the hook will dissolve in a short time. I would think the fish has a better chance of living by cutting line that tearing out tongue or other parts.

Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake

Mister twister wrote:

Now that’s a good topic for discussion. I have released fish with an embedded hook but does the fish live, like to think so.

I once caught a 3 pound Small mouth Bass that was crapping out a little over half a hook. The point was gone, rusted off. Looked in the fish mouth and deep down I could see where it had been hooked. Believe my that fish healed just fine, it was a scrapper.

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Spiritof27 wrote:

Gamakatsu. And I ordered 100 #8 barbless circle hooks from Cabela's a couple years ago. I don't know the manufacturer, but they're good strong sharp hooks. Use em all the time for trout.

Barbless, that’s a real sportsman’ Way to fish. And it saves lives.👍👍👍

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

The only hooks I use a Gamakatsu unless I'm using trebles where I use VMC.

Doug Lemmon Loc: Rochester Mills, PA

If you wonder how a fish can survive with a hook stuck somewhere, Just walk into a shopping mall and look at the freak show walking around.. All of the metal in people's faces that has been installed voluntarily.

Let's think about that hook again....

He'll just be another hipster in the water!!

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Ivey wrote:

I once caught a 3 pound Small mouth Bass that was crapping out a little over half a hook. The point was gone, rusted off. Looked in the fish mouth and deep down I could see where it had been hooked. Believe my that fish healed just fine, it was a scrapper.

We’ve caught quite a few blue sharks with hooks in them,a couple with multiple hooks, varying in age, some almost rusted away.

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

Doug Lemmon wrote:

If you wonder how a fish can survive with a hook stuck somewhere, Just walk into a shopping mall and look at the freak show walking around.. All of the metal in people's faces that has been installed voluntarily.

Let's think about that hook again....

He'll just be another hipster in the water!!

Couldnt help it Doug. This is what i pictured

Doug Lemmon Loc: Rochester Mills, PA

Gordon wrote:

Couldnt help it Doug. This is what i pictured

Gordon,

That is what nursing homes will look like 50yrs from now...lol

Ronniejw Loc: West Point MS

Mister twister wrote:

Now that’s a good topic for discussion. I have released fish with an embedded hook but does the fish live, like to think so.

Caught a snapper back home years back and had a hook rusting inside its gut. It put up a hard fight, probably remembered that first hook

bugeye Loc: North of the gnat line in Georgia

I either buy barbless hooks or mash the barbs on others.
If you keep the pressure on the fish, you'll catch just as many with barbless.