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Fishidiot
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Does anybody have any experience with this system or a similar setup? The "Moffitt System" is advertised in FFing publications as a new, supposedly safer, set-up for catch and release FFing. What it involves essentially, is multiple hookless nymph or egg flies on the tippet with a bare circle hook trailing several inches below the flies at the end of the tippet. When the trout inhales the fly, the fisherman sets the hook, pulling the fly out of the fish's mouth and embedding the trailing circle hook in the outside corner of the fish's jaw. While this technique has been around (using J hooks) for awhile among western steelhead guys and folks who fish rainbows in Alaska with egg flies - using a bare circle hook and small nymphs for stream trout is unusual. I thought maybe some of you steelhead guys may be familiar with this. I am skeptical. While I like circles for bait fishing saltwater and have a lot of confidence in their holding abilities, whether they would work in the tiny sizes typical of PA trout fishing is unclear to me. I'm going to try something like this in the future, both on trout and bass/sunfish and see how it turns out.