hi,
just wondering does anyone having tips on unhooking fish without harming them or how to avoid deeply hooking them. Was fishing with a 4/0 hooks and ending up with a bearded rockling on the line. I wanted to release it but it had swallowed the hook right into its guts. I couldnt get it out so had to kill the fish. Was feeling pretty bad about it and would prefer to avoid needlessly killing fish if I'm not gonna keep them. I'm a novice so all advice appreciated
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Re: deeply hooked fish
big rockling mandaveyboy wrote:hi,
just wondering does anyone having tips on unhooking fish without harming them or how to avoid deeply hooking them. Was fishing with a 4/0 hooks and ending up with a bearded rockling on the line. I wanted to release it but it had swallowed the hook right into its guts. I couldnt get it out so had to kill the fish. Was feeling pretty bad about it and would prefer to avoid needlessly killing fish if I'm not gonna keep them. I'm a novice so all advice appreciated
,but circle hooks will do the trick(squeeze the barb with a pliers also for one handed release) 
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Re: deeply hooked fish
Cheers Kevin,
Funny it wasn't that big. Dunno how it it swallowed the thing so deep to be honest
Funny it wasn't that big. Dunno how it it swallowed the thing so deep to be honest
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Re: deeply hooked fish
use kamasan hooks - the thinking is that you can cut the line and the hook will dissolve in the fish over time - meaning you dont have to kill it
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Re: deeply hooked fish
i find the gemeni disgorger fantastic for unhooking fish,seems to always work for me and plenty of others i know, Give one of those a go and see how you get on
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Re: deeply hooked fish
there is only one way to on hook deepley hooked fish is to cut the snood
daveyboy wrote:hi,
just wondering does anyone having tips on unhooking fish without harming them or how to avoid deeply hooking them. Was fishing with a 4/0 hooks and ending up with a bearded rockling on the line. I wanted to release it but it had swallowed the hook right into its guts. I couldnt get it out so had to kill the fish. Was feeling pretty bad about it and would prefer to avoid needlessly killing fish if I'm not gonna keep them. I'm a novice so all advice appreciated