Gents:

Long time lurker who surfaces occassionaly when the talk is actually about
fishing!!!

Chris, I fished the Moffitt system last weekend. I was particularly
interested in their claim of reducing mortality. I found that claim to be
bogus, in fact, for the first time in a long time, I killed a fish.

I caught four fish with the system and every one was hooked in the top of
the jaw, dead center, with the hook pointed out. If you have seen the ads
for the system. you are supposed to hook the fish on the outside of the jaw.
After three fish like this, I took the rig to another fisherman who is
better at tying knots than I and he said the knot was tied correctly, but we
re tied the knot anyway.

I caught another fish, and again it was hooked in the top of its mouth.
When I tried to use their custom hook extractor, the fish lunged in my hand
and the extractor went through his gill.......result......dead fish.

Also, every time I caught fish, the fly had not slipped down the line to the
hook, so the fish was caught on the bare hook. Also, when you see the
cirlce hooks, they don't have a barb, but there is a turn up at the end that
makes it hold just like a barb. They are not easy to remove.

OTOH, the fish did seem to grab an hold these nymphs and I caught fish
quickly.

To summarize.
1. Mortality was not reduced.
2. Snagging is snagging, no matter how you slice it.
3. My guess is that the developers of this system hope that fisherman will
overlook these shortcomings in the hope of catching more fish.

My kit is in the trash can.

Patrick
"Fred" wrote in message
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On 29-Jun-2009, Frank Reid wrote:

Haven't seen the system, but it looks like a commercialization of a
few tube fly systems I've seen in the past. I will order the try-out
kit.
Frank Reid


On 29-Jun-2009, Frank Reid wrote:

Haven't seen the system, but it looks like a commercialization of a
few tube fly systems I've seen in the past. I will order the try-out
kit.
Frank Reid

I am also interested
Frank
Pls let us know what you think.

Thanks
Fred