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No, This is far from foul hooking, this is actually a very effective and better (read: more humane) way to catch fish that, to my knowledge, began in Alaska for the egg drop.
What WAS happening, is that the trout that were sitting behind the redds munching on eggs, and would gobble up the fisherman’s faux eggs, often hooking down deep into the gills which caused a very high mortality rate. With this method, the fish will go after the egg-bead (or fly) then floss themselves (because they were going for the fly to begin with), and the hook will be on the outside of the lip, which would be all-around better for every animal involved.
This is vastly different than foul-hooking a fish… not to say foul hooking doesn’t happen, but no more often then normal.
The caveat that I would mention, is to have the hook an inch or two away from the fly, so not to hook the face, just the outer lip. It is also much easier to release the fish.
I’ve used this method on the L-Sac with eggs (beads) with pretty good (read: humane) results.
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