No.
You’d have to tie special flies. Hooking a fish like that ensure that your line will run through the fish’s mouth, which seems to make breaking off more likely…
Just seems like too much trouble with not enough benefit.
Not to mention, I don’t see a small dry fly floating very well with a heavy circle hook hanging off it.
Sounds too much like political vodo economics. Would you trust it? Me either!!
Sounds like in many cases its a method that would be used to try to justify snagging.
“It took the fly! Honest! I cant help it the hook lodged in its back!”
sigh
No. It’s my understanding Wisconsin’s DNR considers this snagging.
I do not see myself buying this. #1: not enough flies for my type of fishing.
Bill
I find it curious and very “sales” oriented that they used their fingers to remove the hook on the conventional fly, and a tool to remove the hook with their system. I also noticed that when removing the conventional hook with their fingers, that there was a pair of forceps hanging from the fisherman’s vest. Obviously done this way to make the conventional system look awkward. I’m sticking with the old proven way.
Anyway, that’s the way it appeared to me.
the “Moffit System” is a good laugh to me…1st of all they didnt invent it…in Alaska we fished that way years ago…it became outlawed about 10yrs ago…we used glass beads for salmon eggs and slid them up the line just like they do…we used a toothpick to wedge the tippet and the bead above the hook…when the fish hit the bead then set the hook…the egg comes out and the hook follows and hooked the outer jaw…its called “pegging” and nothing new…all was well until the trout on the Kenai River began having only 1 eye from the hook missing the jaw…now you have mutated trout and of course some fell victim and lost both eyes…also I can speak 1st hand on bonefish and I will bet the farm they cant score a Biscayne Bonefish with that method…also I have never seen a bonefish die from a hookset because the crushers wont allow it…I have had hooks closed or totally opened by them…in 300 bones or more I know 0 died from a hook…same with trout…have you ever really gut hooked a trout? nice try to reinvent an illegal method for profit…also it doesnt need “special flys”…any fly will work if you cut the hook off so again it is not very thought out but a money trap IMO
Pennsylvania also would consider this snagging.
Sounds like “PC gone wild”.
Notice they don’t show removing a regular fly with a set of forceps(just like their system).
From my experience with hooking brown trout on the outside of the mouth it causes MUCH more damage than hooked on the inside.
Someone trying to make something out of nothing here…not to mention having to tie new flies and having a thick hunk of crap hanging off the fly.
I predict a warehouse filled with unsold product that will later appear at bargain rates or, more hopefully, salvaged for use as real tackle.
I have to agree about the snagging. And besides, circle hooks have been around for years. I smash down the barbs on all flies or use barbless hooks… amazing how easily they come out when the line is no longer tight.
I cry “FOUL”…foul hooking that is. If you hook in the outside of the jaw…that’s snagging. you can say that the fish was going for the fly, but in this case, that is not true, as the fly and hook are not attached.
They call it flossing around here. line goes into the fishies mouth, then slides down to the hook…
Most the time, my barbless hooks (I use a lot of circle hooks and crimp the barbs on them as well) fall from the fishes mouth as soon as he’s in the net and the leader goes slack. The rest of the time a quick flip of the forceps and that’s that. Plus, the Moffitt system (aka: pegging) would be considered snagging here in KS as well.
Thats funny. How long till he switches to treble hooks. If he wants to use circle hooks use tube flies. I like how he show’s the hook draging across his fake fishes back and not snagging. I would bet that if the hook caught the dorsal fin he would yell fish on.
It’s called flossing here and looked downn by most fly fishers and considered illegal by the Fish and Wildlife enforcers.