BillyBob, the reason why you are allowed to keep fish hooked in the tounge gill plate or eye is because these are fatal injuries to fish. If it's hooked in the eye it can'e see predators very well. If it's hooked in the toungue or gill plate it will bleed to death. I can't begin to count how many silvers I've cought in area nine that were hooked in the tounge and would bleed to death.