Evan Lip Ripper

It sucks for sure, practically nothing you can do once their tongue hooked. But I’ve probably caught more tongue hooked fish that didn’t even bleed a speck. Like I don't understand?

I’ve tongue hooked some bass and some of them didn’t bleed a speck of blood and swam off fine. Anyone else?

What is the flooring on his side or was he upright when he came back up?

It probably most likely died from stress.

Not always, last November I caught a bass with a hook in it's tongue and when I took it out, it didn't bleed a single speck.

How did you try removing the hook?

Why did they die? IK they were hooked in the tongue.

How fast did it swim away?

Probably you are having a lot of slack or letting it take the bait until you will for sure catch it.

One time I caught a bass that had a hook in it's gill and I snapped the hook and there wasn't a single drop of blood. I think how my friend removed a hook from the bass's gill was just pushing it out by the barb.

Well, the severely bleeding ones.

The gut hook removal technique is to go through the gills and rotate the hook instead of cutting the line or ripping out the hook.

Maybe it hit the brain pan.

H Was it hooked on the mouth? Deep in the mouth? I don't mean in the gullet.

Then he probably would have snagged it.