Fly Fishing Reel Problems

how to avoid fishing hooks lodging in the throats of fish?

ok, so i am working on a fish farm for work experience, and one of the tasks im working on is catching and landing trout from one tank and moving them to another, i catch them with a rod, reel them in, land them and dislodge the hooks, followed by throwing them into another tank. simple, right? well, the only problem is, most of the trout swallow the fly and hook, and if the hook lodges in the trouts throat it has to be killed. so, is there any way i can avoid the throat lodging happening?

I don’t know of many ways to prevent a fish from gorging a hook. If a fish really wants to gulp down the lure or fly, there are only a couple things you can really do to improve the situation.

First, set the hook quickly and lightly. The point is to get the fly into the fish’s lip or mouth parts, so by simply setting the hook quickly, you lessen the chance of the fly getting down into the throat. Probably easier said that done. It’s kinda tricky because it all happens in less than a second, but I suspect if you work at a hatchery and you’re catching fish all the time, you’ll get better at this fairly quickly.

Second, and maybe more importantly, use barbless hooks and a hook remover. Small flies with no barb on the hook do surprisingly little damage to a fish’s mouth/throat, and they’re super simple to get out. Sometimes if you just release tension on a barbless hook it will fall out. This won’t help you prevent fish from gorging the hook, but it’ll help the fish survive if the fly does get down into the throat. Using a good hook remover, the kind that slips over the line and down onto the hook, will also decrease fish injury because you can get the hook out without having to hold onto the fish so much, and you won’t have to touch the fish as much.

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