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GFF: But why would anybody do that? Doesn't it hurt?
TS: Whaddayathink? Of course it hurts! Like nothing else. Imagine yourself being dragged around with a hook in your lip! We trout and most other fish have a higher threshold for pain than humans, but getting hooked is not nice.
The "ride on the line" compensates to a certain extent. That can be a lot of fun, and for many trout it's a sort of a rite of passage to get hooked and manage to loose the hook and be free again. Of course the spreading of catch and release has made the risk of dying much smaller, but still there's always that thought: "Will I get free, will I get released, will I die...?" That's what makes being a tightliner so exciting. Living on the edge, never knowing.
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![Tränen lachen :lol:](./images/smilies/1F602.gif)
tränen gelacht,
"ich steh auf so´nen scheiß" ganz mein humor