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I came across a pretty cool rig setup tonight online, which is intended to hook a fish in the least-damaging method possible by taking a double egg-loop rig, and then simply taking the top egg-loop-tied hook and then clipping the entire gap and bend and point and barb off, leaving basicalyl a short shank with an eye and an egg loop tied to it, just a touch above the trailing hook, which is left bare. The idea behind it is to entice a strike on the point-less hook and then set it - but here's the problem, you're essentially guaranteeing that you'll be catching the fish from the outside of the mouth, since it's closed on the lead "hook" which has no curve or point, and is just bait.
The sticker here for me this that this appears to be a legit rig that's getting legit hits and is also not ending up with fish that tongue hook or gut hook and which can sometimes be worse injured by that type of mouth-hooking.
I also have always been sketchy on a multi-hook rig since it seems as though you might very likely accidentally snag a fish with the trailing hook (it's also why I hate to use trebles) as well, and if that's the case then that makes me wonder why this method wouldn['t be at least as safe/ethical/legal as the standard two-hook cheater leaders I see in the store.. Although I have seen at least one person claim those aren't legal in OR either so.
In the regs the last time I closely read them (it was a law update 2-3 years back, which I read tonight) it said something about snagging or flossing being because the fish was not "purposefully striking at the hook" so I was wondering if a hook which has been cut to simply be a shaft, cannot or would not be considered a hook any longer (also, since it's got bait, it might lead to the assumption the fish was striking and not flossed, hopefully)? I'd be happy to trim a few hooks short to try this except I would like to at least be fully informed before trying to explain my story to someone who checks my catch and decides they were all flossed because they got hooked from the corner of the mouth consistently. :blushing:
The sticker here for me this that this appears to be a legit rig that's getting legit hits and is also not ending up with fish that tongue hook or gut hook and which can sometimes be worse injured by that type of mouth-hooking.
I also have always been sketchy on a multi-hook rig since it seems as though you might very likely accidentally snag a fish with the trailing hook (it's also why I hate to use trebles) as well, and if that's the case then that makes me wonder why this method wouldn['t be at least as safe/ethical/legal as the standard two-hook cheater leaders I see in the store.. Although I have seen at least one person claim those aren't legal in OR either so.
In the regs the last time I closely read them (it was a law update 2-3 years back, which I read tonight) it said something about snagging or flossing being because the fish was not "purposefully striking at the hook" so I was wondering if a hook which has been cut to simply be a shaft, cannot or would not be considered a hook any longer (also, since it's got bait, it might lead to the assumption the fish was striking and not flossed, hopefully)? I'd be happy to trim a few hooks short to try this except I would like to at least be fully informed before trying to explain my story to someone who checks my catch and decides they were all flossed because they got hooked from the corner of the mouth consistently. :blushing:
