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[TheFishingLad]

All fish were out of the water for a brief moment for the picture. Good day though, caught quite a few, only one cherry, a few trout.

[Dennis.t]

Nice Harrison Cuttie!!!

[TheFishingLad]

I don't dare travel out that far until I master all streams closer first, sir.  Fought like a coho too, was fun with 4lb test. That tomato on the other hand, was, well still was fun.

[redtide]

nice cutty and first pic of coho. cutties are sometimes hard to release while in the water cause they inhale the hook so deep. ive had to beach some of mine  just to do surgery on them.

[TheFishingLad]

Agreed! It was fun watching them chase my metal stuff, going again in the morning in search of a hatchery coho, been too long.

[RalphH]

cutties are sometimes hard to release while in the water cause they inhale the hook so deep. ive had to beach some of mine  just to do surgery on them.

very rare when using a fly and also not my experience with lures though any cutts I get on lures are incidental while fishing for salmon.

[clarki]

very rare when using a fly and also not my experience with lures though any cutts I get on lures are incidental while fishing for salmon.

Rare in my experience too when fishing spoons off the beach. It's a rare fish (although it does happen) that takes a spoon deep. Most are lipped hooked. However, if redtide is referring to using bait, then I can certainly see it.

Nice fish, Lad

       

[swimmingwiththefishes]

I disagree somewhat on spoons not deep hooking, and think it depends a lot on the hook size. 

Sometimes fish just crush the spoons and if the large siwash that comes with the lure  hasn't been switched out then definitely fish can get deep hooked, and if they are smaller fish the large hook can can come up around the eye.

I always put on smaller siwash hooks on all my spoons to avoid this, and prefer to go with higher quality hooks as well. I also find they stick better when fighting a fish.

[clarki]

I disagree somewhat on spoons not deep hooking, and think it depends a lot on the hook size. 

Sometimes fish just crush the spoons and if the large siwash that comes with the lure  hasn't been switched out then definitely fish can get deep hooked, and if they are smaller fish the large hook can can come up around the eye.

I always put on smaller siwash hooks on all my spoons to avoid this, and prefer to go with higher quality hooks as well. I also find they stick better when fighting a fish.

I'm just speaking from personal experience after hooking hundred(s) of cutthroat trout over the past 20 years off the beaches. My spoons are fitted with a size 4 hook. Yes, some get the hook through the eye and some get it in the gills (I hate that, esp on the wild fish) however the vast majority are lip hooked and swim off just fine to fight and spawn another day. And these are fish that are aggresively attacking the spoon as it is fished to resemble their prey.           

[Sandman]

I also have not had that experience with flies or spoons with cutthroat, however one of our spoon caught coho had taken the spoon so deep that it was hook in the back of his tongue and I could see the bloodin the water before he even got close to the beach.  It was a shame it was wild or I would have kept it.  I only hoped if hadn't lost too much blood, it would be able to do his thing before he succumbed to his injuries.  I attributed the deep hook to the slow retreive I used to dial in these coho.

[swimmingwiththefishes]

Anyways not trying to question a man whose caught hundreds of trout, just wanted to emphasize that hook size can play a factor and it's ridiculous how the tackle companies as a default use oversized siwash or treble hooks.

[clarki]

Yeah, I did come across as defensive and ego-ridden, didn't I?

[brandooner]

nice work!