hook finishes?

by bill piatek
(NM)

I've been fishing a lot this year with a 270 Seiryu rod and a barbless hook and salmon egg. With the smallest 1/4" strike indicator everything is lip hooked and an easy release.

But after a bunch of trout they get spookier and I have to remove the indicator. At that point I start hooking a few deeper in the mouth.

What is everyone's feelings about using black nickel etc. finishes. Think they still desolve in the fishes digestive juices?

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” - Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens the fish..." -
Col. Robert Venables 1662

As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron.

We've all had situations where seriously chewed up flies kept catching fish after fish after fish. It is no sin to tie flies that come off the vise looking seriously chewed up.