Landing the fish too quickly?

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SmokingToe

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Hey Guys,

Is it possible to reel a fish in too quickly? I understand how your line would snap and you'd loose that once in a lifetime fish if you do it with a lunker, but with your fish under a kilogram would it be better to reel it in moderately quickly and fight it a bit or to just burn the fish to the boat?

Watching the vids of the pro's doing it, unless its a fish over a kg they seem to burn it to the boat and pop it out the water with the rod... Good/bad for the fish?
 
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Cpt. Hook

Sealiner
SmokingToe wrote:
Hey Guys,

Is it possible to reel a fish in too quickly? I understand how your line would snap and you'd loose that once in a lifetime fish if you do it with a lunker, but with your fish under a kilogram would it be better to reel it in moderately quickly and fight it a bit or to just burn the fish to the boat?

Watching the vids of the pro's doing it, unless its a fish over a kg they seem to burn it to the boat and pop it out the water with the rod... Good/bad for the fish?
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If you are catching them shallow no problem, but when fishing deep then you can harm the fish and upset his air bladder, so when fishing deep it is better to reel them up slowly to allow them time to equalise. Also it is good practice to carry a hyperdermic needle on the boat to be able to bleed the air bladder.

NB: You must learn how to blled the air bladder properly, and with bigger fish it takes a little more skill
 
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Little Green Fish

Sealiner
It's much better when fishing deep, to reel them in as slow as possible, not only for the one getting reeled in but very often they tend to pick up weight (SERIOUS WEIGHT) on the way up as they get slammed by a bigger one, as for the bleeding the air when they do pop-up as a result of being hauled up from the depths too quick, well that's something I will never attend, rather get them off the hook ASAP and back into the water there's hardly ever an issue in  this case, but rather just bring them in slowly......
 
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SmokingToe

New member
Yea im aware of the problems with the air bladder, my question was more based on shallower water under 3m deep but around 50m out. This weekend my friends told me i burn the fish back 2 the boat too aggressively... From what I remember reading the shorter the fight the better for the fish. We were also fishing grass so I didn't want the fish to get hung up. So in that situation, would it be better to maybe burn the fish out of the grass and then slowly retrieve it the rest of the way to the boat? Or just a constant burn.. Hook out, put back?
 
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