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[TwoLabs]

I just got my latest Field 7 Stream magazine and there is an article about how to catch fish by placing a fly up line from the hook.  It is basically showing people how to "floss" with the only difference being the promote using a circle hook to avoid snagging.  The article states that this method reduces injury to fish by not hooking the fish inside the mouth and damaing the tongue or gills.  The only thing it said about this method being questionable is that some states require you to turn loose any fish hooked "outside the mouth".

[work2fish]

If they are talking about using dropper flies thats agaisnt the regs in BC anyway.   

Or does the article suggest something else?

[coryandtrevor]

Ive read it as well 

Its snagging in a new leather jacket. Any fish purposefully not hooked inside the mouth is snagging.

[spey]

whats the problem? 
sounds like this fish is still attacking the fly and not being "force fed".

[Rodney]

In catch and release fishery, the main objective is to do so without harming or killing the fish when they are released back into the wild. The tongue and gill sections of the fish have vessels that are likely to be poked and resulted in bleeding. Mortality is mainly contributed by bleeding that does not stop when a fish is released (the fish simply loses all the blood), not from exterior damages such as scale loss or ripping of the skin (less of the two evils). This system (having an egg pattern tied a couple of inches above the circle hook) is designed to prevent deep hooking and bleeding. Some fish would end up being hook inside the corner of the mouth, some would end up being outside. Either way, the intention is to release a fish that would not have any blood loss so the fish are being caught and released effectively without damaging the resource.

[spey]

well said rodney

[coryandtrevor]

whats the problem? 
sounds like this fish is still attacking the fly and not being "force fed".

So you feel the 'bump' and just reef on the line hoping that the fish has not turned away ?

Sounds like a someones selling something...........

[marmot]

Interesting.  I wonder if this explains the odd outside mouth hooking I get when using longer stingers on my clousers....?

[spey]

The method is almost identical to fishing a fly with a trailer hook. The fish are committing to the fly, and yes when i feel a bump i do reef on it, its called setting the hook. I don't think you understand the difference between hooking a fish in the corner of the mouth and intentionally snagging a fish that is not willing to bite.

[fish tracker]

It would be hard to intentionally snag fish with a fly set up,the guys rippin heavy weights through small pools on the vedder,now that's snagging.