Kinda curious, please state the circumstances.

Type of plug/if you let it drift or you were lazy and let the bass run.

No spot burning necessary etc.

I'll let this run the explain what I'm getting at on Monday when I get home. :D

i voted now, but not that i think about it i had a fish about 27 lbs lewinski a gibs pencil one morning. it was aweful.

I have gut hooked stripers with flies, but the biggest offender is the storm shad bass inhale the thing

Yeah....pencil popper!:fishslap:

Gut hooked? Past the gullet and into the organs? Can't say I have.

Hooked so deep that only the line attachment eye of a 7" pencil popper was showing? Yup.

So much for the theory that "they always hit the head" :fishslap:

Gut hooked? Past the gullet and into the organs? Can't say I have.

99.9 of the fisherman in American don't use the right terminlogy. I Guess its impossible.

[QUOTE=Mike P]Gut hooked? Past the gullet and into the organs? Can't say I have.

Ditto. Had one last year take an entire Hawg Hunter 2 inches past its lips. Lots of deep hooked fish with jigs(not really a plug)

why does that term even exist?

Yeah, another pencil popper statistic.

no, I get too excited to let them swallow the thing that deep and usually end up just pulling the plug/lure out of the things mouth (sounds kinda wierd).

I had a 36" fish take a 2oz Hab's and I couldn't see the loop on the front of the plug when I got it in. Kept it, it bled out real bad. That's as close as I've come I guess.

Gut hooked? Past the gullet and into the organs?

In my case, yes.. the rear trebbles were past the back of its mouth, down the back of the throaght (sp?) and probably into its stomach.


Obvously it came right up behind it and snarfed it right up :hihi:

yep, many times.
those you eat.

I said yes in the poll. My bass was gut hooked on the outside. Night fishing and the bass were thick in a current fighting over my A salt Bombers.

the biggest offender is the storm shad bass inhale the thing

Even on the 5 inch. :(

Even on the 5 inch. :(

Had a 29 inch bass inhale a 9 inch shad down to it's gullet last year. No way I could get the two hooks out.

Both from the inside and out... and let me tell you this a bass gut hooked down the throat knows it's a gonner and will just feel like dead weight but a bass gut hooked from the outside will test your nerve as it will feel and fight like a much larger and healthier mouth/jaw hooked fish.

I hate it when they're taken on the gills. What a mess, poor fish.

i saw the one pi guys talking about..that was bad.

i had a 10lb blue get salty buggers big pencil most of the way down, until the front treble stopped it and anchored its jaw shut. i just cut the plug off and kept the blue and performed surgury an hour later. when i cut the head off the back treble was way past the part i would consider the mouth.

I had a fish inhale a popper rear treble waaay down and top treble waaay into the tip of my finger. :rollem:

I had a fish inhale a popper rear treble waaay down and top treble waaay into the tip of my finger. :rollem:

ouch

Goose, did the fish flail around?

Another pencil popper fatality. Hooked in the openning to the gullet and the other treble in the gills.That was on the second cast to the same fish, he was either very hungry or very selfish.

So anyhow, most say no.

Bass have a tendancy to stun and run.
Only on a full on feeding frenzy will they just eat eat eat.
I'd bet money on bass being a 'tactile' fish, as in when they do an initial pickup they're stunning then stopping with the crippled fish to get it pointed 'the right way' before swallowing. (Who wants spines?)

If they feel resistance (line) or it dosen't 'feel right' (mmm squishy) to them they'll spit it out and go look for something more edible.


Hooks on plugs just happen to stop them from doing their 'stun and run' tactic. :D

Discuss.

i totally agee

gut hooked a mid 20 pound bass on a pencil popper....lure seems to be the culprit for a lot of gut hooked fish

gut hooked a 26 incher tonight on a yozuri mag minnow.. thank goodness for crushed barbs.