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Originally Posted by Sundancefisher
Yup. Agreed.
It is a huge challenge trying to educate people on proper fish handling. I see that at our private lake. Put resources online… but people don’t read it. Try to explain it cautiously people take offence. I see people drag trout up on shore, take a while to get a hook out. Stop for a few photos. Lift it up looking like they are deciding what to do next. Fish flops out of hands and onto rocks. Repeat one or more times then place in water and walk away.
Those big rapalas… can do incredible damage to gills and blood vessels in the mouth cavity.
People complain the don’t ride the same but is it true? Can someone not only pinch down barbs and remove a few arms from the trebles and still catch fish?
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As someone with a high understanding of lure building/action it is possible to keep a lure running true well changing hooks but you can also mess the action up to. So yes if you do it wrong the action changes or the lure even blows out. If I truly got into lure action and the different factors most would not understand. But a simple principle is if you change weight or the angle a lure rides the action changes
I have explained many times you can modify or change hooks on a lure as long as there is no big change to the weighting. Easiest is cut or file the points off of a treble. But in all honesty it is far more complicated then the old single vs treble theory if one really looks into it both styles of hook have advantages and disadvantages with fish mortality
Appropriate hook size and barbless are far more important in my opinion. Most lethal thing on trout is small singles especially with bait in my opinion. Large singles can also blind and brain hook smaller fish. A treble does create the possibility of multiple hook points penetrating the fish making it take longer to remove. But if you remove the barbs this becomes less of an issue. But they also don’t penetrate as deep do to the junction of the prongs. Also the dimensions of a treble make it harder to swallow deep if using the appropriate size
It’s far more complicated then single vs treble it’s more so applying them correctly to the set up/style of fishing and species/size. Barbs though are meant for meat fishing not C&R plain and simple
In the past I tested a lot of things on a private trout pond I had over 10years regarding different things that impacted mortality
First myth a hook left in a deeply hooked fish in freshwater is not going to de solve. Some may shake it but most will die or have major complications eating or infection. If it’s legal to do so you are better off keeping that fish if you legally can’t do so cutting the line will give the fish a chance but odds of survival are low. I know this from drag netting and harvesting fish from that private pond seeing te impact of the fish that had hooks left in them or finding them as floaters
Choose to use the above information as you please I won’t debate any of it because it has been put to the test far beyond most will ever do. Most studies won’t run near as long or as extensive as I did in the past
Fish can be extremely tough and also extremely frail