This past weekend my kids & I caught and released about 25 - 30 fish from The Upper Mississippi; smallies, catfish, carp, sucker, walleye. We used #6 Gamakatsu Octopus Circle hooks with a 1/2 crawler threaded on. Walleye size octopus hooks with a circle point, pinched barbless.
Not a single gut, throat or gill hooked fish, and more hook-ups than "worm thiefs".
Some other guy came in with a 5 or 6 lb. channel cat, and asked me if I wanted it. I said no, and he released this fish, bleeding from it's gills, into the river to die. I know those things happen, but if a simple choice of hooks can decrease needless mortality - I'm all for it. Try some, and then tell your friends.
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This past weekend my kids & I caught and released about 25 - 30 fish from The Upper Mississippi; smallies, catfish, carp, sucker, walleye. We used #6 Gamakatsu Octopus Circle hooks with a 1/2 crawler threaded on. Walleye size octopus hooks with a circle point, pinched barbless.
Not a single gut, throat or gill hooked fish, and more hook-ups than "worm thiefs".
Some other guy came in with a 5 or 6 lb. channel cat, and asked me if I wanted it. I said no, and he released this fish, bleeding from it's gills, into the river to die. I know those things happen, but if a simple choice of hooks can decrease needless mortality - I'm all for it. Try some, and then tell your friends.
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