snipecatcher
Adventurer
hey
They don't dissolve fast, at all. One guy on the forums took some hooks and hung them off of his pier, in saltwater, mind you. After 6 months, he could have taken a file to the point and still used the hooks. In freshwater they would probably last just about indefinitely. Not long ago on that same forum, one of the offshore fishing guys caught a fish that he had caught a year earlier. He knew this because there is a specific way he rigs his hooks, and he had to cut the line on that particular fish (a dolphin). Pretty crazy to be 50+ miles offshore in the middle of the ocean and catch the same fish from a year before. The point is, they do fine with a little extra "jewelry," and they are much better off than having their throat ripped out by someone trying to remove a hook.
-Dan
They don't dissolve fast, at all. One guy on the forums took some hooks and hung them off of his pier, in saltwater, mind you. After 6 months, he could have taken a file to the point and still used the hooks. In freshwater they would probably last just about indefinitely. Not long ago on that same forum, one of the offshore fishing guys caught a fish that he had caught a year earlier. He knew this because there is a specific way he rigs his hooks, and he had to cut the line on that particular fish (a dolphin). Pretty crazy to be 50+ miles offshore in the middle of the ocean and catch the same fish from a year before. The point is, they do fine with a little extra "jewelry," and they are much better off than having their throat ripped out by someone trying to remove a hook.
-Dan