If a fish hook is painful for the fish, why then have I so often witnessed?

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...a fish biting on the bait, then swimming calmly as if nothing had happened - until it reaches the end of the slack in the line. I've seen this happen many times in the clear waters of the Florida Keys with 6-12 inch grunts and snappers.
 
Because it's like a piercing, and it hurts a little at first but at the end of the line it pulls on the fish and is tearing its tissue
 
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