Today I was fishing with a jig and had about 4 keepers in a row jump and spit my jig (including a 4-5 lber). Usually I have no problem with landing fish on jigs, but it made me wonder: why don't they make hooks with either multiple barbs or longer barbs? Obviously heavier hooksets would be necessary, but I feel like I do that anyways. Is it ethical/legal reasons or what? 

 

Thanks for the input

I don't think this was a problem with the jig hook. Most likely a problem with the hook set. Is the weed guard too long? Did you trim it any to make it easier to set the hook?

The weed guard would not be thick/long enough to stop the hook from getting through the fish's mouth. I make sure of that with my overkill hook sets. It would always be when the fish jump (and yes I tried different retrieves after hooking a fish to keep them down). 

I fish barbless hooks exclusively for white bass, and when doing so I hook a lot of largemouth as well. Very rarely does one spit it. I get a lot more fish that spit it with barbed hooks than with barbless. The reason being is that it takes more effort to penetrate past the barb. With barbless it only takes a small flick of the wrist and the hook has penetrated to the bend. I doubt you had them hooked past the barb, or just had the very edge of the lip and ripped it loose when they jumped. 

 

It wasn't a barb problem, it was probably a hook-up problem. 

The weed guard would not be thick/long enough to stop the hook from getting through the fish's mouth. I make sure of that with my overkill hook sets. It would always be when the fish jump (and yes I tried different retrieves after hooking a fish to keep them down). 

 

 

Well, there's your problem right there. You set the hook too hard and tore a hole in the lip, then when he jumped it twisted the hook and came free. If you set the hook like the hulk you have to horse them to the boat not allowing them to jump or turn their head. If you are going to play them to the boat then you cannot be doing the hulk hookset. 

Today I was fishing with a jig and had about 4 keepers in a row jump and spit my jig (including a 4-5 lber). Usually I have no problem with landing fish on jigs, but it made me wonder: why don't they make hooks with either multiple barbs or longer barbs? Obviously heavier hooksets would be necessary, but I feel like I do that anyways. Is it ethical/legal reasons or what?

Thanks for the input

If you hook a bass past the barb and correctly fight it then it still throws the hook then you just weren't meant to catch that bass lol

Are your overkill hook sets causing the problem? You could be setting it so hard that your ripping it out of its mouth and barely catching it by the lip. Just a thought.

Christian

are you keeping the line tight when they jump? always keep your line tight and pressure on the fish

I agree, this is not a hook problem. Either your hooks arent sharp and not penetrating deep enough, or your ripping the lip with you hookset and not keep enough pressure on the fish

I've never had trouble with this before and pride myself on not losing fish with a jig....

 

Back to the original topic: Don't you think a hook with 2 barbs instead of one; or a longer barb would land more fish with a heavy hook set?

I've never had trouble with this before and pride myself on not losing fish with a jig....

 

Back to the original topic: Don't you think a hook with 2 barbs instead of one; or a longer barb would land more fish with a heavy hook set?

NO !

What lands a fish is a tight line........PERIOD !