Pinch your barbs!

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I got hooked on camera in a similar way [video=youtube_share;T4wkV5YojzY]http://youtu.be/T4wkV5YojzY[/video]and even thou i flattened down the barbs it was still hard to get out,keep some pliers with you.
minor bleeding in this video FYI
 
Redearsunfish said:
Great video. Pinch you barbs before you fish. IF the hook is under bone or in tendon, you cant push it through to pinch the barb!
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Thanks for the thread and good point!
A spotted gar jumped up and hooked me but did get the hook out by pushing it through and doing what you said. I recommend the quicker u do this the better before the pain sets in,at first you don't even feel it.. hardly:)
 
watched the video.. you got hooked because you were overly tentative and hesitated to grab the lip and were out of position.
 
For 2014 - if your not fishing for food, and if your fishing purely for sport, and perhaps not necessarily trophy hunting, try pinching down your barbs for 2014. You may lose the odd fish or two, BUT you will save your hands (or other body parts) and the lips, jaws and body of the fish you release.
 
Few years ago I hooked a pike,during the action the fish tried to swim away, my drag somehow didn't work and the large lure comes flyin at me as a result.
Big Treble hits me in my hamstring and hits a vane, I was in the middle of nowhere and needed to walk a couple of miles with this large lure in my leg.
Later that day I went to the hospital where they removed the treble,I Still got a small scar on my hamstring today.

As a result of this incident I would pinch all my barbed trebles, I believed it was a solution that made a lot of sense to both my and the fish it's safety.
It all worked out well till a summerday in 2012, During fishing for pike I thought I got stuck when I suddenly realized I hooked a monster. It took me about 15minutes to get the fish in for the first time, It was really well hooked for a barbed treble, but this was a treble on which the barbs are pinched.
Needles to say but I lost the fish of a lifetime, It's my personal ''one that got away'' and it made me change my fishing back to barbed hooks.
No regrets to this day, you just don't wanna lose a monsterfish because of something you could have changed.
 
flemming said:
Few years ago I hooked a pike,during the action the fish tried to swim away, my drag somehow didn't work and the large lure comes flyin at me as a result.
Big Treble hits me in my hamstring and hits a vane, I was in the middle of nowhere and needed to walk a couple of miles with this large lure in my leg.
Later that day I went to the hospital where they removed the treble,I Still got a small scar on my hamstring today.

As a result of this incident I would pinch all my barbed trebles, I believed it was a solution that made a lot of sense to both my and the fish it's safety.
It all worked out well till a summerday in 2012, During fishing for pike I thought I got stuck when I suddenly realized I hooked a monster. It took me about 15minutes to get the fish in for the first time, It was really well hooked for a barbed treble, but this was a treble on which the barbs are pinched.
Needles to say but I lost the fish of a lifetime, It's my personal ''one that got away'' and it made me change my fishing back to barbed hooks.
No regrets to this day, you just don't wanna lose a monsterfish because of something you could have changed.
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Hey we'll agree to disagree. I'd rather lose a fish of a lifetime, than end up in the Emergency Room with some Dr. performing minor surgery on my hand.
 
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