do you ever have a trout take a fly and have it not hook in his mouth but deep in its throat?
i’v had it happen a few times. i’m sure most of us have.
Yes. Usually it is one of those hyperactive 5 inch brookies trying to gobble a #10 fly.
Tim
I’m lucky if they get hooked at all.
I haven’t been fly fishing very long, but I’ll say over the past year, I’ve had it happen twice. Once was nymphing in a deep slow pool, and I just never detected the strike. The other time was a dry fly that got inhaled and I had too much slack in my line, and by the time I set the hook, it was back a little farther than I’d have liked.
Luckily, in both cases, the hook never really set deep. I was able to just turn the hook at a slight angle and the fly slid right out.
Not often. The last one was a brown years ago that took a nymph and was microns short of being legal size…
Hi,
I’ve had it happen, but not often. I’ve been told that using glo-bug (egg) patterns in a lake, where the technique is to cast out where cruising fish are, then leave it until the fish comes along and sucks it up results in deeper hook sets like that. I tend not to fish egg patterns as a result, though I don’t know if this also occurs in moving water. Probably not as I would suspect they are grabbed more quickly, like nymphs.
- Jeff
hahahaha so true!:lol:
It happens to me on occasion, with dries, streamers, and nymphs. Someone made the observation about glo bugs earlier this season, so I started paying attention, and since then, I have not had a deep hooking with a glo bug, in a couple hundred fish. Moving water, however.
This IS a blood sport. You will kill fish, as long as you are having fish eat your fly. The only way to avoid completely the possibility of accidental kill is to not fish.
In all honesty, I can’t recall the last time I’ve had this happen.:?:
Maybe 1 in 50 fish i get a deep hooked one. Like DG said, fishing is a blood sport. Sometimes the fish die or get hurt, i never keep fish but if i get one hooked deep or in the gill and i know its survival chance is low ill take it home for a fresh dinner if the regs allow.
Tom
When using dries always in the lip; under the water surface using a streamer or a nymph, occasionally.
Dale
Funny you should ask this.
This past weekend I had two trout do this and this was the first time EVER a trout wasn’t hooked in the mouth for me.
I made a mental note after the first thinking I’d never had one do this and then, bam, another one.
Fortunately I got both flies out without incident. One was very near the gills.
Like most of the other respondents, I’ve had it happen occasionally.
Usually the fish is fine…sometimes it kills the fish.
Happens.
Buddy
Lately i have had it happen a few times. I think has a lot to do with the spawning browns being so aggresive. They will attack a big rubberlegs hard and sometimes it gets them a bit deeper than normal.
Not often…I only recal one or two fish that sucked a fly deep enough to cause some bleeding in the last 3-4 years. Its unfortunate, but it happens. Flies arent nearly as bad as soft plastic tube jigs, senko’s, or bait. Cheers.
To me, whenever I am slow retrieving a Goldie Deep for largemouth bass, I might get the suckers deep. Little trout with tiny mouths are the worst, because I can’t get it out! Also sunnies it happens frequently as well.
but I have never left a fly in a fish. I have had great success thus far with retrieving my fly quickly with some hemo’s.
the worse fly fiascos I have had, all have been because the hook went right though the joint in the jaw. I can never seem to get the hook out quickly right there.
Hi,
Thanks DG. I’ve figured in moving water the take would be different.
- Jeff
Tim, in all honesty I think that you are right. I very seldom hook a trout deeply, and then it is probably a brookie.
A 3" long 'gill will completely swallow an inch-and-a-half long fly on a longshank hook.
Ed