hi everyone
was thinking of buying a catch and release tool and im looking for advice, are the cheaper ones as good as the more expensive ones, are they easy to use, do they really work. any recommendations welcomed.

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Barbless hooks and your fingers with a set of forceps zingered to your waistcoat/jacket for the odd deeper hooked fish. Tried all those Ketchum type things and found them to be a bit fussy to use.

Andy

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I bought the Stonefly catch and release tool, and find it works quite well, as it is easy to release the fish in the water, unless of course they are still wriggling a bit too much

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I only ever use them if some reason the fish is deeply hooked. Tend to be very useful for coarse fishing and chub.

Other than that forceps and barbless hooks are the key

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Bog standard coarse fishing disgorgers are the best hook removers I've used. Much more efficient than forceps - and cheap.

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is that the simple V type, I'd never thought of that!

These are the ones - never understood why game anglers dion't use them. They slide along the line down to the fly and the hook comes straight out.

About £3 for 5 alloy jobs delivered on eby.

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Use the same.Barrel disgorger, 20-50 pence job. Catch & release tool which is basicly a barrel disgorger £8.00. Makes no sense to me at all, seems that once you change the purpose from coarse to game. You can charge silly money for it.

Sean

Your best catch and release tool is the tip of your rod.

Play the fish to the side, let the line slack, slide the rod tip down to the fly and give a slight push.

Trout of any size ought not to be pulled out of the water and put down on the bank. The result can be the fungus encrusted horrors in catch and release waters.

I tried the ketchum thing and couldn't get it to work for me. The rod tip method is soooooooooo easy.

Curved forceps work for me.

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