OUCH... Cutting line on deeply hooked fish is not always a death sentance.

[Ski]

Caught yesterday in North Fl.

[Dwight Hottle]

Talk about hemmroid relief. I’ll bet that bass was so happy with you he didn’t want to swim away.

[gim]

I've found a bass with this too, more than once.

[scaleface]

26 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I've found a bass with this too, more than once.

yep , I pulled soft plastics out too .

[fin]

I caught one once that had a hook stuck in the roof of its mouth, all rusted and swollen. It looked like a snake fang. I was lucky I didn't get stuck by it when I lipped it.

[Smokinal]

Well that brings a couple of sayings to mind

[king fisher]

Great.  A bass breaks me off, steals my hook, then gives it to another angler.

[geo g]

I have removed deep hooks with line attached.  These bass were not hurt and doing quite well even with the hook.  Knowing how to get a deep hook out is very important.  Lots of vids on this!

I Once caught a fish I had broke off an hour earlier in the day.  Still had my #3 Gama hook and my fluke attached.  What are those odds?????

[Bluebasser86]

How does someone deep hook a fish on a circle hook? ?‍♂️

[Zcoker]

4 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

How does someone deep hook a fish on a circle hook? ?‍♂️

 It happens. It's usually caused by allowing the bait to be swallowed or by using offset  hooks. The circle hook is very effective but not perfectly effective.  

 

[Zcoker]

On 9/24/2022 at 3:35 PM, geo g said:

 Knowing how to get a deep hook out is very important.  Lots of vids on this!

 

Good point. Knowing how to do it is the first step. There's three access points to remove a hook from a fish's mount: the mouth, the left gill, and the right gill. Most see the hook through the mouth and if too deep, call it and cut it. The gill access points always seem to be overlooked, for whatever reason. 

[geo g]

On 9/26/2022 at 3:35 PM, Zcoker said:

Good point. Knowing how to do it is the first step. There's three access points to remove a hook from a fish's mount: the mouth, the left gill, and the right gill. Most see the hook through the mouth and if too deep, call it and cut it. The gill access points always seem to be overlooked, for whatever reason. 

Thé on line vids explain it all.

[Team9nine]

More recent study data suggests cutting the line on deep hooks is a superior outcome compared to trying to remove the hook by going through the gills, FWIW. The OP’s pics seem to support this effectiveness. This is one I removed earlier this year from a bass that was about to expel from his lower end (I had already removed the attached line).

 

 

[thediscochef]

I've pulled out softbaits but never metal...that's wild. I think the two things I've seen like that were:

- a 20lb blue catfish with a swimbait in its mouth. The jig head was the the only part left, and it had been there long enough that skin had grown all around it. Would have done more damage to remove it at that point.

- a small bass choking on a chatterbait micro I'd broken off the day before. I'd gotten my line snapped off in some sharp timber, came back and saw a bass that should have been swimming away. Managed to get it ashore and get the hook out of the gullet without much sign of trauma (thanks to info on this board). I have to wonder if I'd hooked the bass and it pulled me into the cover without me feeling it.

 

I pulled a senko out of a 3lber earlier this year. Had to have been a relief.

[Spankey]

Great post. This is not quite the same thing but as a kid I had my younger brother with me and we were trout fishing in the national park. He hooked into a giant fall fish. Have not see one that big to this day. The fish had 12-15 hooks in his face. Different degrees of rusted. Steve removed his hook and let him back with the others intact. Great post, good fishing.