I completely agree. It wasn't my hook. Treble hooks are, in my opinion, designed more for snagging fish than for catching them legitimately and I never use them. Besides, how are you going to tie a fly on a treble hook? You would never get it to look right, and the fish laugh at me enough as it is without my giving them any more reason to.
I can't help but wonder if someone caught that fish and then cut the line, thinking they were doing it a favor by catching and releasing it. I'm looking at the mono attached to the hook and it looks like fairly heavy line. It was only a 12 inch trout, I don't see how it could have broken off. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Zillmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] ouch! and a warning > 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 > > >
