what is "foul hooked"?

[duncan]

personally I feel that a fish hooked in the head - ie in front of the gills - is fairly hooked when using lures, and therefore probably also when using bait.

 

any other part of the body would not be considered fairly caught.

 

Is there any NFSA guidlines?

[Adam F]

Yeah....see the other post.

 

I agree with the NSFA guidelines, but think that I would be unhappy submitting a fish if it was cuahgt in the tail for instance - I think I would then exclude it.

 

Best way forward I think is just to follow the NFSA....its then up to the indiviual if they want to sumbit it.

[Afishionado]

I suppose it's all down to what we think the meaning of fishing is.

One could go out in a dinghy and wait for a fish to jump into it, and we all know that it sometimes happens. But that is not fishing it's luck.

Similarly one could tow a hook through a shoal of fish and hope with luck that it impails a fish. That too is luck not fishing.

I think fishing starts when one uses a degree of skill to achieve the object of ones efforts. So IMO a fish foul hooked through the tail or back is a fish caught by luck not fishing. The mouth or the area of the mouth is fishing.

So I for one would not want to claim I had caught a fish by any other method than fishing. A hook in the tail etc was luck.

Mike

[Swainiac]

mmmmmmmm mike, a degree of skill.

 

 

 

Well, that counts me out then!!!!

 

Rich