Do hooks really rot out ?
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Topic: Do hooks really rot out ?
Posted By: Hooked on Fishing
Subject: Do hooks really rot out ?
Date Posted: 18 May 2009 at 6:56pm
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I have heard that if you can not get the hook out of a fish safely, it is ok to simply cut the line and leave it in the fishes mouth. Does the hook really rust out and if so how long does it take.
I would be grateful for any stories of fish caught with hooks still in thier mouth and if the hooks were rusty.
Has anyone else heard of this story. Are some types of hooks better than others.
Tight lines to anyone who shares their knowledge.
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Posted By: Lethal
Date Posted: 19 May 2009 at 12:56am
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We have caught them with a hook hanging out there A hole which has passed through there gut and hooked up again as it was coming out, just about rusted away.... Cod hooked one with me by the swivel with his hook, the swivel was attached to a longline hook in the side of the snaps mouth was new so no rust, we released it after removing the hook....
have seen a pic of a stainless steel hook making its way from the inside out of a snappers stomach, snap was in good health.....
grabbed a very long trace when diving trailing behind a king, the hook snapped which was definitely just about ready to come out, lot of growth on the line cant say how long it would have been there, but the fish was very skinny.....
i caught a snap that went 22lb which when young at some stage broke its jaw, now that fish went onto live to a rip old age, which i would say wouldn't have been pleasant trying to feed its self......
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Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 19 May 2009 at 8:14am
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I caught a large kahawai not so long ago in a shallow estuarine area and it had a medium sized hook hanging out of its jaw and the hook was quite rusty and not far away from falling out as it was thin in places also. The kahawai was in premium condition and did not appear to be affected by the hook in any manner. ------------- "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau |
Posted By: krow
Date Posted: 19 May 2009 at 8:23am
Now thats one for the record books. With that sort of luck I bet he catches crayfish all the time.
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Lethal wrote:Posted By: Bruce
Date Posted: 19 May 2009 at 10:55pm
| I think that a jaw hooked fish will probably survive. A throat or gut hooked fish could be a different story |
Posted By: Capt Asparagus
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 7:50am
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Talked to the guys at kelly tarltons a few years back, any fish they catch (they use barbless hooks tho) that is gut hooked, they simply put the fish into a tank and 3 days later thay find the hook on the bottom of the tank... fish pass them thru without any seeming difficulty. Caught a hapuku once out at White that had a big sinker hanging out its butt, nylon went right thru its gut, and the circle hook was still in its jaw. It was rusting out slowly, so it had been there for a fair while, the puka was a fat as a tick and no sign of any particular distress.... it certainly had still been actively feeding. Guess we just have to accept that fish register such things differently from us, not so much of the pain thing I think, more annoyance at the irritation probably, well, that is my thoughts anyhow. All those eedjits who liken hooking a fish with hooking a puppy or a person are total wastes of space in the cranial department.... and with no experience in animal life. |
Posted By: Bushpig
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 7:56am
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Guess we just have to accept that fish register such things differently from us, not so much of the pain thing I think, Considering snapper eat kina, I would say this is a given. People that think fish feel pain as we do need their heads read ------------- I would rather laugh with the Sinners, than cry with the Saints |