"rw" wrote in message
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snakefiddler wrote:

might also have made a situation i had the other day easier. i hooked a
sunfish, problem was he all but swallowed the fly. it was a bitch to
get
out, and i'm sure there was no way he survived. i couldn't do the
merciful
thing and kill it and cook it because i was in a catch and release only
creek. sucked.

The best thing to do in such a case is to cut the fly off. You should
also carry hemostats for removing flies.

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frank sent me hemostats, but how is cutting the fly off good? wouldn't the
fish just swim around with that thing hooked in there until it finally
developed some kind of foreign body reaction, or something?

snakefiddler