I was out flyfishing the other day and found myself into a lot of fish. A very rare event for me and it was a tremendous thrill.
Anyway, after landing four I realized (oops!) that I had forgotton to remove the barb from my hook so I dutifully went ahead and removed it. After that is was maddening, I was into just as many fish but I just couldn't get them into my net (I think I managed to hook into another five but only landed one
).
I was maintaining tension in my line and keeping my rod tip up so that it would absorb the fast runs but they would get off either by jumping and throwing the hook or by making sudden twists. It seemed to be more difficult when I got them in close. Maybe I was trying to get them in too fast because I was doing catch and release and I didn't want to exhaust them.
Any of you experts out there know the best way to deal with that?