Worm Hooks

[TheDiko]

Hey Raiders,

After a very exciting, then very depressing fishing sesh on Sunday morning I need advice on how to properly fish worm hooks on my plastics.

After losing 3 Pike and 5 Bonito to missed hook-ups I was ready to be put in a straight jacket.

I tried:

Striking as soon as the fish hit.

Striking after the fish swallowed the lure.

Letting the fish run and not striking.

Letting it run then striking.

A slow strike.

I also tried having the hook sitting in line with the top of the lure and exposed.

The day ended with 0 fish hooked and 0 landed.

Any tricks of the trade I'm missing?

IFS

[breambo]

when fishing surface lures. The key for me thus far, has been to STOP unless you're fishing for pelagics. With bream, if they're swirling at a lure, they haven't got it in their mouths yet. Let them take it down and turn before you take up the tension.

Remember, do NOT strike like you would with normal placcies. This is made even more important by the fact that bream have relatively small mouths, and aren't built for inhaling things, rather, they bite. So, let 'em, and let them turn, subsequently hooking themselves.

The timing of a strike is at no time more crucial than when fishing surface lures. Takes some getting used to, but you'll get there. There'll always be more bites than hook-ups guaranteed, but it's oh, so much fun.

[Luringbream]

Where were you fishing mate?

Were the fish busting up on the surface? Or were they in the wash, or were you trolling?

And are you sure it was Pike and Bonito striking at your lures?

As far as i can see and with my own experiences, you did everything right. One of the primary reasons for using worm hooks is around heavy snag country to protect your lure from getting snagged.

Do a search on how to rig plastics on worm hooks, its fairly simple. Also how big were the plastics that you were using? That may be another reason why you were missing them.

Try to steer clear of worm hooks when fishing for pelagics as not only do they miss many fish but they also damage the plastic once a fish has been landed.

DAN

[TheDiko]

Where were you fishing mate?

Were the fish busting up on the surface? Or were they in the wash, or were you trolling?

And are you sure it was Pike and Bonito striking at your lures?

As far as i can see and with my own experiences, you did everything right. One of the primary reasons for using worm hooks is around heavy snag country to protect your lure from getting snagged.

Do a search on how to rig plastics on worm hooks, its fairly simple. Also how big were the plastics that you were using? That may be another reason why you were missing them.

Try to steer clear of worm hooks when fishing for pelagics as not only do they miss many fish but they also damage the plastic once a fish has been landed.

DAN

Im fishing them landbased off some rocks into the river.

Fish weren't busting up, they came by every 10 minutes or so and had a swipe at the lure. Definately Pike as that is all I ever catch before sunrise, and I could see that the fish were Bonito. Watson's Leaping Bonito to be exact.

The reason I have started using worm lures is because they let the lure work really really well. The action is enhanced 10 fold compared to resin jig heads or weighted jigheads.

Using 7.5 and 8cm flickbaits and 3" powerbaits.

I have an idea next time I get down if this bastard weather ever clears up. That is to get the lure right in the fishes mouth, then strike so hard I'll pull its head off. I think I wasn't striking hard enough as with resin heads the fish pretty much hook themselves and I wasn't used to striking really hard.

IFS

[DaveD]

I have an idea next time I get down if this bastard weather ever clears up.

IFS

And rain predicted in from Sunday onwards. Clears up for a few days, then back to shite.