Dan, I too take from time to time a fish for dinner -that's ok. But..... using treble hooks isn't friendly. I used some trebles when I was young but now I refuse it. It's nearly impossible to remove the hook without hurting the fish seriously. I don't think that their hooking capabilities are so much better that it justifies their use. Here in most fisheries the use of trebles is forbitten. Might be a other story in the salt. Hope it's getting better with your thumb. Rene Germany
-----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Dan Crowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: Montag, 10. Juni 2002 04:18 Betreff: [VFB] ouch! and a warning >Ok, first of all, no yelling at me for taking a couple fish, but I took a >couple fish today out of a lake that is HEAVILY stocked by the state, and >which I don't believe has any native stocks at all. I'm an ardent supporter >of C&R, but I can't see where this hurts anything. > >Now that that's over with, I took the aforementioned fish home for dinner >and began the cleaning process. I reached inside the first fish and... > >spent the next 15 minutes getting the little brass treble hook out of my >thumb. This was not my hook. I caught the fish on a size 6 wooly bugger. >This looked to be about a size 10 or so gap on a gold colored treble hook, >with quite an aggressive little barb on it. Two of the hooks buried (I mean >REALLY buried) themselves in the pad of my thumb. > >So, here's the warning. There probably isn't anything sharp in that trout >you just caught, but on the other hand, you may not have been the first one >to hook that fish. > >In all my years of fishing; crazy, terrible casting; high winds, etc. all >the stuff that people blame for hooking themselves, I've never been >seriously hooked before this, and it wasn't even my hook!!! > >Oh well, a new element of danger in the sport. Just what it needed. > >Dan "*#*$%#*$&!" Crowe >Have forceps, will travel >
