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Just started fishing again after 50 years, your films are so good and informative, keep up the good work you have enabled me to enjoy without worrying about doing things wrong
Great video lads, and a really important one re fish health and safety. 🐟💙😊 I've still got the old aluminium disgorger I had when I was a kid. I think it came with tackle given to me by my great Uncle, so that makes it at least 60 years old. 😊 So true what say about not 'stabbing' down the fishes throat. I've seen small fish killed by inexperienced anglers trying to do the right thing. Sometimes, although it is not ideal, you have to cut the line as near to the hook as you can and release the fish as they stand more chance than if they've been held in a hot hand and had a plastic stick rammed down their throats for 5 minutes. Long bladed scissors or those on a Swiss Army knife work best in my experience. 👍😊
Nice guys. Perhaps you could do a fish care video, i.e. how to carry bigger fish out of water after landing, handling of fish, unhooking and applying anti-bac treatment for hook holds and damaged scales etc. I'm sure you'd be able to promote a few korda products in there lol but more importantly inform some novices.
Been fishing years seen most things. But these videos are brilliant and informative for newcomers to angling fair play lads helping out grass root level is a great thing to do.
I just got back into fishing something different than with a spinning rod and this was just what I was looking for. Generally speaking I've been able to hook most fish on the lip but mainly sunfishes have been very shy and often it takes a little bit more time to notice them eating the bait and when it comes to unhooking them it was a bit problematic!
Sometimes if I deeply hook a perch I put slight pressure the opposite way to the hook point and it pops right out. If it’s gut hooked though the best tool to use without doubt is a pair or forceps. They have way more control over the hook.
Mate I’m 50 this year been fishing since I was in primary school still waiting for an invite from Bob Mortimer I digress that’s the first time anyone has ever explained how to use a disgorger to me thanks 🙏
@@fishingtutorials Im just starting out on RU-vid! I hope one day I could grow as big as you! I will never be able too! You just have a skill that makes ur videos really easy to watch! :)
Thank you, so glad I found this. I'm getting back into fishing with my boy, I am fine with large fish unhooking but dread small fish. Caught a tiddler about 5" and the hook is set deep in throat. I tried to remove it and failed at every attempt, placing it in the net and kept in water so the fish could rest, in the end the disgorger got completely stuck....I was horrified at the sight of a fish popsicle flapping, admitted I did club him not to prolong suffering. I hope this never happens again, again thanks 👍
This has helped me loads. I am quite new to fishing and after not being able to get a hook out of a little fish that became a floater, it really put me off going without my veteran angler friend. Any tips on how to prevent fish from swallowing the hook really deep.
Love these tutorial videos. I dont know if you could do a video on handling fish? Ive just got back into fishing, and I know small roach/perch can be held snuggly in the hand whilst unhooking, and large fish put on a matt. But I was catching small carp last weekend and they kept falling out of my hands back into landing net, as I was sat on my box. So where to hold them, how much pressure, how to keep them calm / not cause them discomfort etc. Dont know if you have any tips
I remember watching a video a while ago where you caught some fish at a service station but I dint know what it was called and I want to watch it again
Does this work well with barbed hooks? I found it quite hard.. if the hook was deep. Also bigger hooks it didn’t work great. I gets sizes 16/18 barbless then this is the way forward?
Can anyone recommend a good double ended plastic disgorger one for small hooks size 16ish etc for float fishing. And one for larger hooks for carp fishing like 6’s and 4’s
scarface I’m wondering this for all fish, especially trout but I find lifting them slowly helps or putting your thumb in the carps mouth tends to calm them down
@Harry Smith Yeah for me it works 80% of the time but sometimes i just land a very/pissed angry fish that will never calm down, it want's to get back into it's environment ASAP lol
Gutted age 70 I am new to fishing and I thought I knew how to use this tool but lost two little bream today because of my incompetence. As I say gutted. I just wasn't keeping the line taut. 😪. Lesson learnt Thanks.
Help!!! I've been fishing for the first time today. I caught 3 fish but I accidentally killed two with the discorger and it has really put me off as I feel really bad. Any tips on preventing this happening?
I'm betting those two fish were little Perch. You're always going to get little kamikaze Perch when fishing maggots. The only way to avoid deep hooking them when they're feeding, is to try and hit the bites straight away, before the fish has time to swallow the maggot right down. They really are greedy little bastards though, and sometimes, whatever you do, there's always going to be the occasional 'problem'. If you can't even *see* the hook, and you don't feel confident enough to play 'stabby stabby', possibly killing the fish, just cut the line off as short as you can, and release them. Fish can survive with hooks left in them, especially smaller sizes, which rust away pretty quickly. Or when you start catching small Perch on maggots, change up to a larger hook, and fish worm instead, or a big bunch of maggots. This will pick out the larger Perch which are certainly down there once they start to shoal, and they tend to be far less of a problem to unhook.
My brother (he’s only 9 ) was on the pole and struck to late, the fish managed to swallow it fully and I said to cut the line as close to the hook as possible, was that right ?(it had been out for a while and was a small roach )
Sometimes it can be difficult to get the hook out even with a disgorger so it’s best to just cut the line as close to the hook. It should just work it’s way out.
That’s interesting I prefer I fine disgorger sometimes. My favourite disgorger is a solid metal one. They get the job done better in my opinion. And for deep hooked perch I almost always use forceps because they are better to control and I’m not at risk of re hooking the fish.
jacob prescott I also prefer the metal one. I just find that some tiny fish just swallow the hook so damn deep that trying to remove it feels like you’re about to disembowel the poor fish via the moth and getting the hook out is almost impossible
TERRY BLUSH if it’s very bad the best thing you can do is cut the line as close to the hook as you can get. Some fish will shed it naturally and go on to live a normal life. This is a better solution than too pull or damage it’s internal organs (but it’s only a final measure if the fish is hooked into the gut.)
I feel very guilty about how I mishandled my first ever catch today. Ended up panicking due to the blood and just cut the line with the hook still in the fish, then I released him.
