Possible answer to deep hooking

[Leon Roskilly]

I wonder about the bite-offs we suffered from porbeagle shark last summer despite wire traces plus a fifteen-foot rubbing trace – same cause perhaps?)"

 

 

Interesting theory Vagabond.

 

I can't get the look on Dave Morton's face out of my memory when his line went slack for no fathomable reason when playing a porbeagle when we were fishing for shark off Whitby a couple of years back.

 

Only thing we could think off was that somehow the shark had got ahead of the leader, but that sounds a much more likely explanation.

 

re the pike, I had a fish on a few weeks back, with the sprat up the line, and the pike being played kept lunging towards the sprat.

 

Not sure whether out of aggression, or because its 'attack trigger' was still being stimulated by the sight of the sprat, even though it was being played.

 

(In the past I've several times had a pike come off close to the bank, but has almost immediately taken the bait again when jigged in front of it)

Edited December 7, 2008 by Leon Roskilly

[Leon Roskilly]

Norman Berry has also raised the possibility that using a silver swivel can lead to a bite-off, when another fish attackes the swivel. He recommends only using matt black swivels to avoid the problem.

[lutra]

Its common when fly fishing with a team of flies and playing a fish to have another fish come and grab one of the other flies. Most likely attracted by the first fish thrashing around and looking like its feeding.

 

I remember a story about someone playing a ferox almost to the boat only for it to come off, he dumped his rod down with his bait/lure still in the water and the fish came back and grabbed it again.

[Vagabond]

Interesting theory Vagabond.

 

 

It is offered as a "theory" in the case of pike and porbeagle, but I SAW IT ACTUALLY HAPPEN (twice) in the case of tigerfish. It certainly made me think about similar occurrences with other species.

 

OTOH Den saw that it didn't happen with his bite-off . Is there a chance the fish went for the swivel linking trace and main line Den?

 

Norman's point about silver swivels is a good one. Fish in a feeding frenzy go for anything! Like roach going at split shot when hemping, and I'm sure many of you will have experienced pike having a go at a float on the retrieve.