What's Up With All The "Missed" Fish?....

[Olde School]

foxsea you are on the money!

My sizing guesses were pretty good, so I thought after working for DFO sampling commercial catches for 2 summers when out of highschool. Turned out to not be so good!
I took a lesson in humility about 10 years ago with a beauty spring that fought like a bugger, hit it at 200' and it ran out to 350' and then acted like a coho, I was certain that this pig was my TYEE!
Bragging all the way back to the nook on the radio to our buddies and then the fateful sight - 25.5# on the scale ;-P
Now, I NEVER guesstimate, it has to be weighed or I just say that one away!

Smelly.

 

[Foxsea]

Slack line is the largest cause of lost fish....barbless hooks fall out when there is slack.

X2 - I lost a sockeye yesterday, standing stunned and amazed as it vaulted from the water and did 2 - 360 degree spirals towards the boat before splashing back and away. Obviously I should have been reeling in hard. Doh!

 

[renier]

I see in the tropical oceans a lot of circle hooks are being used, I have tried the at the wall at Bamfield last year on hootchies and got a few small shaker springs on them. They were hooked really well and there was no way the hooks would just fall off. I however have not tried it since. My buddy was fishing. With me and although we missed a few strikes on them he was not a believer. I would like to know if anybody else has tried them?

 

[wstcoaster]

circle hooks are not so good for trolling salmon they are meant for bait fishing as for halibut or rockfish theywork by having the fish. to swim ahead after biting this brings the hook around to the corner of its mouth. fish dont pull back after biteing thet swim ahead