Quote Originally Posted by Fishin is life View Post
I'm not saying that fish can't be foul hooked or aren't being foul hooked. but in a week at KY Lake last fally my partner and I boated around 300 fish and not a single one of them was gullet hooked or foul hooked....We were throwing them with open hooks, not texas rigged...I see the possibility for it to happen, but the possibility also exists with any multiple hook bait...If you've thrown a spinnerbait with a trailer hook much then you've seen the damage that rear hook can do, be it in the fishes gullet or by hooking it outside of the mouth...I love catching fishing and firmly believe in the conservation of our fisheries and will continue to throw the A rig....If I start to foul hook a bunch of fish or damage them, I will change my methods...Until then I'll be out there chuckin it with my telephone pole
Same here.

Plus, if I hook one that looks like it's going to die, into the freezer it goes. The A-rig has been the greatest invention for meat hunters! I can't wait until summer when I can toss it into schools of white bass! Talk about a quick limit on those dudes!