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Re: Freeing a Fish from a Snag? [Re: Donald Harper] #12698234 04/01/18 02:43 PM
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Dang, see that’s MY problem...I never carry a net! roflmao

Good advice!

Re: Freeing a Fish from a Snag? [Re: TXMulti-Species] #12753450 05/13/18 02:28 PM
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Cut the line tie a bobber on and let it go and see if it comes out of the snag worked once for me in a boat but braid can also dig into snag deep and all effort is futile


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Re: Freeing a Fish from a Snag? [Re: Wildman of the navidad] #12753476 05/13/18 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted By: Wildman of the navidad
Cut the line tie a bobber on and let it go and see if it comes out of the snag worked once for me in a boat but braid can also dig into snag deep and all effort is futile


I'd definitely need a boat for that one... and a big bobber! I'd think the fish would just drag it under.

What's "worked" for me so far is something I came up with myself. If a fish gets in a snag, I try all of the tips I've been given so far in this thread, and if that doesn't pull out the fish I go to my last resort. By this time, the fish is always long gone, and I've never had one still on the line while doing this. I give myself a bit of slack and find a sturdy stick on the bank, then wrap it around my line a couple of times so the line can't just play off the stick. Then, I pull straight backwards until I usually bend my hook. Then I just reel in my line and get to keep my expensive method feeders ($2-$4 a pop eeks). I've lost so many of those I was forced to come up with some way of not breaking the bank!


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Re: Freeing a Fish from a Snag? [Re: TXMulti-Species] #12755314 05/14/18 10:09 PM
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50% of the time it works every time.

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