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Did the fish ever wrestle that hook free? Or did the fish eventually die from its punctured flesh? This article aims to answer that age-old question once and for all. But first, a little history …. An easy to use tool designed to remove fishing hooks from even the most difficult swallowed hook.
Early fish hooks were crafted from a wide variety of materials including wood, horn, stone, shells, animal bones, and even human bones. While you still can find most of those types of hooks the more modern hooks are made of some form of alloy including bronze, iron, high-carbon steel, steel alloyed with Vanadium, or stainless steel. From the seventeenth century up until about the middle of the twentieth century the majority of hooks were made of plain steel.
Modern-day fish hooks are not only composed of higher grade alloys, but they are also coated with a thick plating of Teflon and nickel which adds a layer of protection and prevents degradation.
In the last couple decades, there have been two notable studies on the fate of fish hooks and the fate of the fish they are left in. First, a study performed by John Foster, Recreational Fisheries Coordinator for the Fisheries Division of the Tidewater Administration of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources what a title , on whether fish shed any hooks left in their gullet.
Thirty fish were tested with each type of hook over four months for bronze and tin-cadmium and 60 days for stainless steel and tin. Finally, does this eye-opening study showing Northern Pikes being able to somehow shake off well set treble hooks in a matter of days mean that ALL fish can just as easily shake off all hooks? But it certainly is an incredibly interesting insight into how quickly these fish can recover and shake off treble hooks! It would mean a lot to me. You Rock! Feeling better after losing a pike tonight, snapped line, and leaving a spinner treble barbed hook in its mouth after reading this.
Thanx for the study. I concur that hooks left on Fish eventually will come loose by way of rubbing off or what I believe dissolving because of body acids god has given these creatures to exist! Short true story During the 60s when fishing bass at a friends cottage , I hooked a beautiful small mouth bass , when getting him beside the boat , a friend grabbed hold of the line and of course the fist broke the line and swam off with my black jitterbug lure.
This was in a bay 3 bays from where we were staying. This could be for Riplys believe it or not. This was a annual get together at this cottage with old neighborhood friends. NOTE The following year July 1, weekend 7 of us were Sunbathing on the dock and shore , while laying on my stomach looking over the water I noticed something odd off in the distance floating in the water, got in the boat and went and retrieved my black jitterbug , missing were the front and rear treble hooks.
I believe that crankbaits fish can use the weight of the bait to throw the bait, plus small trebles dislodge easily. Not true with large worm hooks with no bait attached, threw the worm. Nothing surprising in that study. Do the study again with a large, good quality worm hook with no bait attached. Fish hooked in the stomach are going to die unless you cut the hook with a long handled side cutters and rotate out.
I have caught very skinny bass with a hook coming out their anuses that all looked like new. I fish for native trout witch are true wild trout in Virginia. Many times I have throut hooked them and have cut the line and released them back to the mountain stream. My worry is that they will die because of the hook left in. I have proof of it happening to me , and I have just posted my experience earlier , although not on trout on small mouth bass , I believe god gave fish a survival chemical to attack such foreign matters..
Always wondered how fish got on after a plug gets lodged inside a gullet. Thanx for the write up. Great article! They at least fed other fish and critters.
Speaking of hands, fish DO have hands and fingers. Anyway, glad to hear that fish are capable of shrugging off hooks much more easily than I previously thought, such tough lads. In December of , these two brothers shocked their clients, friends, and family by quitting their 6-figure jobs to start their dream focused on helping saltwater anglers:.
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