Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Mar 19, 2019 17:59
5 yrs ago
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Swedish term
mothugg
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Sports / Fitness / Recreation
Fishing
Hello
I was stuck on:
Dock skall ni vara beredd på att det kan bli många tappade laxar då det är svårt att få till ***mothuggen***, so I asked the client.
The answer was
”***mothugg***” is the moment /event when the fish takes the fly and swims away and the fisherman simultaneously pulls the rope to get the hook to sit in the mouth of the fish.
But I can't find a term for this. It is NOT snagging by the way as that is a very specific term and does not work
I wondered about "hooking" the fish but the bait has already been taken and the hook is already in the fish's mouth so I'm not sure about that.
Does anyone happen to know what we call it when the angler "yanks" the line to get the hook to sink into the flesh of the mouth of the fish?
Thanks
I was stuck on:
Dock skall ni vara beredd på att det kan bli många tappade laxar då det är svårt att få till ***mothuggen***, so I asked the client.
The answer was
”***mothugg***” is the moment /event when the fish takes the fly and swims away and the fisherman simultaneously pulls the rope to get the hook to sit in the mouth of the fish.
But I can't find a term for this. It is NOT snagging by the way as that is a very specific term and does not work
I wondered about "hooking" the fish but the bait has already been taken and the hook is already in the fish's mouth so I'm not sure about that.
Does anyone happen to know what we call it when the angler "yanks" the line to get the hook to sink into the flesh of the mouth of the fish?
Thanks
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | strike |
Matt Bibby
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| 4 | hookset/setting the hook |
Hugh Curtis
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| 4 | bite |
George Hopkins
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Proposed translations
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strike
You have to 'strike' the line to set the hook in the fish's mouth. So in this context I would write something along the lines of 'it's hard to time the strike right', something like that, or even 'it's hard to set the hook'.
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hookset/setting the hook
After the strike, which usually is the term for the fish taking the bait, you have to set the hook with the hookset or hook set.
Reference:
1 hr
bite
... it's tricky to secure the bite.
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Note added at 15 hrs (2019-03-20 09:17:31 GMT)
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Bite here: (of a fish) to take or attempt to take the bait or lure. (eg, Collins English Dictionary).
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Note added at 15 hrs (2019-03-20 09:17:31 GMT)
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Bite here: (of a fish) to take or attempt to take the bait or lure. (eg, Collins English Dictionary).
Discussion
I was just looking at this again
My problem with "bite" is that the bait is already in the mouth of the fish so it has already "bitten" the bait and this bit when the angler strikes is the next stage
On the word "strike", it does seem to be used for the fish too.
There are videos of fish strikes on YouTube and "strike indicators" gets hits for equipment that tells you when the fish has struck. The word therefore seems to have two similar meanings.
But I'm not an angler and so any help and opinions are warmly welcomed.
I already have "strike" for fish (when they go for the bait) so even though it seems right too, for example I just found
"Once a fish has taken your fly there's a number of different ways to react. This article will try to help you hook more fish by adapting your strike or hook set."
I think I need to avoid it in this sense and I'll go for "hookset".
But thanks again to all
SafeTex