Idaho Regs

[maghunter]

The fishing lodge I worked for practiced catch and release on all trout, pike, and grayling. We never used any live bait and they trained all the guides and guests proper releasing technique. The one thing that surprised me when I first got there is they liked to use barbless trebles instead of single hooks on all of the bigger lures. Their thinking was that the single hooks went down deeper and often times made their way into the eye of the fish, or the gills. I had a large blue fox spinner with a large single barbless hook and hooked two char on both fish the hook came out the eye [unimpressed]. I put a trebble on and didn't have any more blinded char. They only used the trebles on larger lures, on smaller lures it didn't seem to be an issue. I think this is because larger lures require larger hooks, if you have a two inch hook behind a lure when the fish eats the lure from behind that single hook is going to be way down its throat and when you set the hook its going to follow the path of least resistance which is sometimes out the eye.
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