,,,, catch something with anouther's tackle in the fish caught?
Knowing I'm not the only one that breaks off a fish through bad planing, I've yet to catch a Stipper with anouther's gear in it's mouth. Can't believe they die from trama or poisoning So I'm wondering. Do fish cast off plugs and hooks like a human will from scrapnel? And survive for anouther encounter of the mankind?
I've not yet! Stainless or otherwise.

hooks rust out

I,ve had a few ><>,>><

Bass no... but I've caught them with evidence of recent hooks, i.e. older wounds near the mouth..
Bluefish yes...
Sharks.. took a Mako off Newport a few years back.. pulled something like 4 or 5 HD Livebait hooks out of him when we were steaking him... It looked like he has swam through the giant fleet at the mudhole just clipping baits off.......

I've taken a few bluefish over the years with plugs/hooks in them.

My first 30 lber had 2 12 inch weakfish in it's belly an a 3/0 treble with a screw eye in it's throat.it hit a 8 inch rubber shad.One day double handed flukin i had a st croix an abu combo yanked outa my hand :wall: If u find that it's mine.

Every now and then, especially at a breachway...

One time I got a high teens fish that I kept for the table. Gutting and checking the stomach contents, I found a partially broken down eel which had a hole in the throat from a hook...

Throwing Timber has a good story :spin:

Last year in CC Bay I was trolling and jigging. I hooked what I new was a fish because of the headshakes so I handed the rod to my wife. She realed it in and got to the jig but no fish. She was reeling for a while too. Then I noticed the jig was caught on wire. I pulled in by hand about 50 yrds of wire and a keaper striper. I don't now how long it was attached to the wire but the fish was fine.

Caught a 10 inch trout the other day with a hook in its stomach and 3 ft of leader hanging from its mouth. It was still healthy enough to take my bait and fight.

I would say every 50th striper has a bait hook or a rusted hook in it's mouth or gut. they will rust out soon enough

I caught a 31-inch striper a few years ago on a swimming plug on 10-pound test. It didn't fight like decent fish at all, but when I went to land it I was surprised by it's respectable size. I dragged it up onto the sand, and when I went to grab it I notices my lure lure was in mid-air about two feet in front of the fish. Here's what happened. The fish had been caught before on bait. The leader was hanging out of it's mouth. The treble on my plug went through the opening on the swivel at the end of the leader in its mouth, which is how I landed it (what are the odds of that?)
The fish was in pretty bad condition; weak, skinny and kind of red looking around the fins. It didn't look like it was going to make it. So I ate it. It tasted good.

One time fishing with live pogies, landed a 15-pound bass, that had two other hooks that had been cut off at the wire leader coming out of its mouth. It looked like a catfish with all the wiskers.

Not sure if that fish had a death wish or not. Don't remember if I kept it or released it, as it was more than 25 years ago, but the visual of two, separate wire leaders coming out of its mouth and my hook with a mono leader remains glued in my mind.

I catch a few every year with a fly or hook in it's jaw. Caught a bluefish up in Wellfleet last year on a Castmaster. It had a small homemade wood popping plug in it's jaw.

i thought strippers loved things in there mouth!! were did you pick up yours at the saloon:bshake:

Here's a true story: I was fishing HOM in Truro from the town lot. Not much happening. Soaking worms. My next door neighbor on his way to work in P-town walk down the beach to chat. I had a take, set the hook and broke it off. We looked at each other and I said " that felt good , wonder how big that was?". The next morning he handed me MY rig and pyramid. I tied it . He said that fish was 36inches, bub. Smiled and went to work. He had caught it literally in my footprints the next day.