VMO Flatfish & Match Disgorger is a compact disgorger which works very well on flatfish and other small fish
Because of their size, conventional disgorgers and T-bars can still make the unhooking of smaller species of fish difficult.
With the advent of tiny hooks to the UK sea match fishing scene, a low diameter disgorger is a must to safely remove a hook, ensuring that a released fish has the best possible chance of survival.
Locating the bend of the hook with the notch in the end of the VMO Flatfish & Match Disgorger or the one along the outside edge allows for the hook to be gently pushed from its holding position and extracted through either the fish’s mouth or gill cover.
With deeply hooked flatfish the following is a good way of using the VMO Flatfish & Match Disgorger to remove the hook with minimal damage to the fish.
- Carefully slide the disgorger through the fishes gill cover and out of the mouth.
- Loop the trace line around the notch on the side of the disgorger
- Remove the disgorger so that a loop of line comes out through the gill cover.
- Gently pull the loop and this will reverse the hook
- Put the disgorger into the fishes mouth and locate the side notch onto the hook bend
- Remove the disgorger and pull the hook out backwards.
- Return the fish safely to the sea.