If you break off a fish is it a death sentence?

[Bluebasser86]

3 hours ago, Ralph Nicholas Vito said:

even trebbles ? i hope the pickerel that broke me off shakes that trebble out eventually

They mostly use trebles in that study. I've never seen a fish, alive or dead, with a treble hooked bait stuck in it minus catfish with their leathery skin. Odds are I would have as much as I fish if they stayed hooked long after breaking off.

[Russ E]

28 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

They mostly use trebles in that study. I've never seen a fish, alive or dead, with a treble hooked bait stuck in it minus catfish with their leathery skin. Odds are I would have as much as I fish if they stayed hooked long after breaking off.

I have never seen a treble hook stuck in a Bass, that I caught.

I have, however, seen a lot of wacky style hooks and a few worm hooks stuck in a bass' throat. 

[Further North]

21 minutes ago, Russ E said:

I have never seen a treble hook stuck in a Bass, that I caught.

I have, however, seen a lot of wacky style hooks and a few worm hooks stuck in a bass' throat. 

I've caught several pike, one musky with a treble hook lure in it.

 

In the case of the musky, it was a lure another guy in the group had lost to the fish two days earlier.  She was still eating...

[burrows]

11 hours ago, Ralph Nicholas Vito said:

would like to know if this is the case or not

Sometimes that is the case unfortunately and hooks definitely don’t rust out but that’s part of the sport kinda makes me feel bad if you feel that bad about a gutted fish eat it or give it to someone that loves to eat fish theirs a lot off ppl that will eat fish. I personally think they poop them out or shake them off the majority of the time. 

[Troy85]

I don't think so.  Few weeks back I was filleting a speckled trout.  I felt something hard its in stomach so i cut the stomach to investigate.  Inside I found an entire jig head with the plastic beetle.  Looked like it had been in there awhile, the hook was all rusty.  The fish was a good weight and it didn't look like the jig and beetle in its stomach was really affecting it.

[burrows]

1 minute ago, Troy1985s said:

I don't think so. 

It might become rusty but it’s not gonna rust away and dissolve that will take an extremely long time.

[Glaucus]

6 hours ago, J Francho said:

That's outdated.  ALWAYS remove the hook.

Not always. I've removed gut hooks that have caused massive bleeding and tearing, only to have them die soon after, as I find them floating shallow. Then I caught some with gut hooks, fully alive and healthy. Stopped removing gnarly gut hooks like the kind that killed fish. Can't really say, but when I've caught fat gut hooked fish, and when I don't see floaters in small ponds after gut hooking fish, I'd say in some cases leaving the hook prevents death. 

 

Key words being gnarly and sometimes.

[NHBull]

6 minutes ago, Glaucus said:

Not always. I've removed gut hooks that have caused massive bleeding and tearing, only to have them die soon after, as I find them floating shallow. Then I caught some with gut hooks, fully alive and healthy. Stopped removing gnarly gut hooks like the kind that killed fish. Can't really say, but when I've caught fat gut hooked fish, and when I don't see floaters in small ponds after gut hooking fish, I'd say in some cases leaving the hook prevents death. 

 

Key words being gnarly and sometimes.

Cutting the shank and going through the gills can remove almost any hook. One of the biggest offenders of this are the young kids throwing plastics from bridges and shore.

 

[Glaucus]

6 minutes ago, NHBull said:

Cutting the shank and going through the gills can remove almost any hook. One of the biggest offenders of this are the young kids throwing plastics from bridges and shore.

 

Sometimes it's not possible. I'm talking about rare cases. But there are some cases where the hook is removable and I've caught such fish and removed the hook. Fully alive, fully healthy.

[burrows]

 

[slonezp]

Why does it matter?

 

If you are that worried about hurting a fish...Don't fish

[Ralph Nicholas Vito]

4 hours ago, slonezp said:

Why does it matter?

 

If you are that worried about hurting a fish...Don't fish

i think im gonna keep fishing thanks for your input though

[J Francho]

11 hours ago, Glaucus said:

Not always. I've removed gut hooks that have caused massive bleeding and tearing, only to have them die soon after, as I find them floating shallow. Then I caught some with gut hooks, fully alive and healthy. Stopped removing gnarly gut hooks like the kind that killed fish. Can't really say, but when I've caught fat gut hooked fish, and when I don't see floaters in small ponds after gut hooking fish, I'd say in some cases leaving the hook prevents death. 

 

Key words being gnarly and sometimes.

You did it wrong.  See the post above to learn how to do it right.

[rejesterd]

Depends where you hook them and what bait you're using.  In the lip with a spinnerbait/jerkbait/crankbait, they'll probably survive since there's a good chance they'll shake it off.  I've seen fish do that. But in the gut, they'll probably die.