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Never caught a choking fish but I almost caught a muskie twice that was never hooked. Had a flag go up while using a 8" trout. Set the hook fought the fish all the way to the hole when I saw the 35ish" muskie had the trout by the tail. Clearly could see the hook in the bait. Made one attempt to land but as soon as I touched the muskie he took off. Reset the flag, walked back to my chair looked back to see the flag up again. Same story with the same size fish guessing the same fish but never know. This time he had the trout by the head but no hook.
happens all the time with perch. I use what the bait shops now adays call "pike bait" and I get a flag and pull up a jumbo perch with the shiner half out of his mouth. no hooks in them