How do you get them out???????????

[fishskipper]

I started another thread before reading this one on dehooking... Any how, just make a dehooker out of pvc, wood etc and put a loop of wire on the end of it. Not 19 wire. I'm talking heavy wire you can bend into a loop and connect to the handle. Like clothes hanger wire or thicker.When you have the fish next to the boat grab the hook with loop in the tool and pull the hook through and snip the line close to the hook. The line will slip back through the hole in the fish jaw... Its quick and easy.. we use do this with BFT in Hatteras... I lost the tool I had but heres a drawing of what it looks like.

[Deep C]

The Tide Went out!!!
I've been checking every few days for breaking news but nothing. Been hot the last couple days. Water all evaporated out... At least this ought to show that I havn't been sand bagging in fresh water... It even shows that through hyper saline condition that the rust process is still slow. I kinda feel like Ghandi going to the sea to make salt...


Gonna run some freswater back up to the hight tide mark. It may speed things up having water oxygenated from the tap... We'll see.

[MarlinHunter03]

You guys should have figured this one out a while ago. Think about it. You can troll one of these hooks around all day long and bring them back in with hardly any rust on them (though sometimes more than others). And even if they are rusted they're not much weaker. Anyone else ever notice their J-hooks only showed significant rust a day or more after fishing them? Heck.. you could troll J-hooks for more than just a couple of trips and I've never had one break in half just sitting there . That's with the hook running behind the boat somewhere between 4 and 6 knots through the wash and or popping out of the water only adding to oxygen levels. Putting some hooks in stagnant salt water is going to do a lot of nothing short term. Sorry guys, hooks simply rusting out and falling away overnight due to salt water alone is a myth. Deep just proved that I guess.

Maybe thinking about this will add some more insight... Why do people insist on keeping steady pressure on fish while they're being fought? Don't you guys think that a lack of pressure on the hook contributes to the vast majority of hooks falling out?

[rarhomes]

Found this today http://www.eyecatcherlures.com/articlesshooks.html


Deep,

What ever happened to the test results?

[austin ensor]

On whites and sails with light leaders I just give the leader a tug and break them off. The crimp or knot is the weakest link so 9 times out of 10 the leader will pop right at the hook just leaving the hook in the fish with no mono trailing behind. On a Blue Marlin with a heavier leader I cut it off as close to the hook as possible.

wat he said