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Try using circle hooks, it's a little different hook set but effective with a lot less gut hooked fish. If you gut hook a keeper then you should keep it, thats the price you pay for bait fishing with regular hooks, give it away to someone who will eat it. If you gut hook a short fish you should cut the leader off inside the mouth so it does'nt get hung up. If your'e not in it for the meat but for the sport then try fooling them by plugging or jigging it's the sporting way to catch fish and minimal gut hooked fish to boot. I have never gut hooked a fish with a plug or a jig. just my .02 worth. I believe you had in your thread that this fish was not even gut hooked but hooked deep inside its mouth. Whats up with that?
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