[Sean_Salmon]

I have a question about fish mortality. I have been barfishing for a long time. And I have ALWAYS tipped my hooks with roe or some kind of bait. I deep hook alot of the fish I catch. If I removed the bait would the deep hook ratio go down?

 

[HOOK]

well you could either do that or try using a bigger hook so that it sticks in their lips as oppose to deep down in the throat threatening the gills.

 

[BigFisher]

Well I fish artificals i little more then I do bait, and I can say Iv never seen a fish swallow the artificals. But I have hooked fish with broken leaders hanging out of there mouth, and during the internal surgery I have found everytime to be a bear hook.....BAIT. But when you are still hooking fish that have 2 inch pieces of hard plastic, 8 inch worms, pens and paintballs in there stomachs and still pulling on It makes yeah wounder. ???

 

[STLHDR]

Well I fish artificals i little more then I do bait, and I can say Iv never seen a fish swallow the artificals. But I have hooked fish with broken leaders hanging out of there mouth, and during the internal surgery I have found everytime to be a bear hook.....BAIT. But when you are still hooking fish that have 2 inch pieces of hard plastic, 8 inch worms, pens and paintballs in there stomachs and still pulling on It makes yeah wounder. ???

Just because its a bare hook doesn't mean that it was BAIT. Ive hooked many fish on artificials, land the fish, and my artificial is missing. So what does that mean? The fish ate the artificial? Or that it ripped off during the fight? If the leader breaks more than likely the artificial is gonna slide off too.

 

[BigFisher]

You right It could have fallen off during the fight, or the fish could have spit it back up. But Iv never hooked a fish that had swallowed my whole artifical, but I guess theres always a first.

 

[Rib]

An article about this very subject should be up by tonight sometime, hopefully it will help to answer some of your questions...

 

[Sean_Salmon]

That will be an interesting read Ribwart I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Rib]

I jump at any opportunity to create anticipation Sean_Salmon... Hopefully I don't disappoint.

It will however be a while yet, as I have steaks on the bbq to tend to before I work on the last few stages of edits...please be patient... ;D