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Originally Posted by carterM
I headed out to a lake today to try my hand at some lake whites. Was probably the most action I’ve seen in many many years. I had to have seen 40 whites and had a great deal of them showing significant interest in my wire worm. Lots of little bumps, pushing the hook in front of them etc.
Still, I had many of them taking the hook fairly aggressively. There were close to 10 times they’d come up, open their mouth, suck the lure in, is set the hook and end up with nothing. Not even hooked... One of the two I did land did this 4 times before I finally got a hook set. The third attempt actually changed the worm from sitting horizontal to hanging vertical. He came back immediately and hit it again even with the hook hanging vertically. That time I hooked him.
So, question time. What is going on??? Lots of bites but I couldn’t get a hookup to save my life. It seemed like it was setting the hook too early maybe, but it was DEFINITELY in their mouth when I set the hook... I have two thoughts. Either I’m setting it too early or too hard.
Thoughts?
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You might also have your hook to closed, ie. if you open it up a bit your hooking rates will go up some times a fair bit.
By closed I mean that the sharp part is pointing to much toward the shaft of the hook. Bend the sharp part (open) away from the shaft so that it is not parallel with the shaft. Some guys will also put a bit of a twist in as well so the point doe not line up with the shaft.
Pretty sure speckle55 (a white fishing god) covered this as well, a year or two ago.
I have found this helps quite a bit.