On Mar 28, 9:09 am, wrote:
On 27 Mar 2007 04:26:37 -0700, "riverman" wrote:





On Mar 27, 6:57 pm, "Peter A. Collin"
wrote:
Your story reminds me of a trip I made to Quebec several years ago for
trophy brook trout. I was using streamers with large hooks, and kept
losing fish like you - the hook just kept pulling out. It was
exasperating and I never figured out what I was doing wrong.

Peter Collin

Nice to commiserate; I feel your pain. ;-)

I'm not very acquainted with big fish, so I'd like to hear from some
of the better catchers about the difference in setting the hook for a
big fish vs a smaller one. Do their beaks get much more bony and tough
as they get larger? How hard to folks set the hook if they are in a
region with 5+ pounders?

--riverman

Um, "setting the hook?" How were you two going about "setting the
hook?" If y'all were "snatching" the rod up, that'd be the problem. If
you have any "slack," it'll be all the worse.

TC,
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I was keeping a tight line...I can say it definitively because all of
my takes were during the lift while I was nymphing. With smaller fish,
I just lift the tip and pull back firmly when I feel a take, but not
with any sort of 'snap' or sudden jerk. In fact, I think the fish
pretty much set the hook themselves and I'm just reinforcing the idea.
But with larger fish, I wonder if I have to really HAUL back on the
rod.

--riverman