Caught this beautiful fish today, thought I set the hook good but when I got it in my net I noticed it was gut hooked. Quickly got some pliers and got to work taking the hook out, I even tried putting it back in the net in the water to get some oxygen then continuing. I finally got the hook out successfully, got it back in the water. It moved a bit then went upside down & didn't move again. Honestly ruined the rest of the day I feel terrible it ended up dying because of me.
Any advice or tips to avoid gut hooking? Probably need to set the hook better than I currently do. Man I feel bummed out
Posted by Alejandro2412
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Man that fish has a small mouth
… Just eat the fish homie
I found it somewhat helpful to use circle baits
Unfortunately this is just part of fishing. Just eat it if you can. And if you don’t, something else will.
It happens , gut hooked a lot of fish, it happens less now that i use more sensitive rods but sometimes there is nothing you can do, just the way she goes boys
This summer a buddy pulled up and had two 7lbers in his cooler, caught them on consecutive casts and gut hooked both and both were floating so he gave them to another one of our friends and he ate them
Snowflake. (You killed a fish and it ruined your day?!?!)
I felt the same on a fish I caught in July or so. You’ll be cool. Circle of life