On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:34:29 -0400, Greg Pavlov
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:02:52 -0600, Willi wrote:


A FINE fish, I'm sure. But that hook bent before a 15lb tippet broke. I
would expect a salt hook that size to be stronger than that, but then I
know **** about salt water.


One of the things I wonder in retrospect is
whether the hook hadn't bent sometime earlier.
I think that it was sufficiently closed to
hold a fish for quite a while, depending on
luck and how it was hooked, but sooner or later
it was likely to pull out. I had a striped
bass open a hook on me as well back when I
was fishing for them with spinning gear and
jigs: I ended up with a wire with a 90 degree
bend. Peter's was quite a bit less than that.
But there is no question that Peter had a very
nice fish on and that it ran a long way: he
was reeling in for a long time when it was all
over.


That was a fairly fresh fly, it hadn't hit anything, and nothing had
bit on it, so it should've been good. It's about 45 degrees open -- I
figure that the hook wasn't set far down in its jaw. If a hook has a
good "bite", it shouldn't bend.



Peter

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