I remember reading another forum about a guy fishing the delta and seeing a mother duck swimming across a slough with 5 ducklings in tow. All of a sudden WHAM, big splash, and then there were 4. He said the mother duck swam around frantically in a circle quacking for her lost one. Regarding deep hooking while fishing senkos... I find that by crimping the barb on the hook closed I can rotate the hook and it slips out easily. In the last dozen or so senko fish I only lost one by this method. And that may not even have been why it came unbuttoned. Set hard and get them under control quickly. My 2 cents.

Steve W