Just a note:

Lennox Dick, MD, writes a column called "Interesting Fish Facts" in STS mag. In an issue a while back they had an article on this very subject. Their study stats showed single point hooks make more lethal wound than trebles, size for size. I think the state regs reflect the notion that it is easier to unhook a fish from a single than treble hook, therby minimizing how much you have to handle them.

I KNOW this much. The wounds I inflicted on some of the silvers I caught on the Satsop this year would surely have been fatal, leading me to keep a couple bleeding natives I would normally have released. But since the regs reuire it, I had no choice but to use them.

I like using siwashes on spinners and spoons, but I've always preferred trebs on my plugs. But this year, they were replaced with siwashes and they do make DEEP wounds.


Fish on..........
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