99% of Anglers Will Catch 5X More Fish If They Get This 1 Thing Right

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No matter if you're fishing in a pond, lake, or river, if you get this one thing right, you will get more bites.
I used to struggle to catch fish when my dad was hammering them next to me.
I was so frustrated I nearly quit fishing altogether. I determined that the fish just didn't like me.
But everything changed when I began using the right hooks (like my dad had been telling me all along) because my presentation could act as it was intended to.
So now I'm going to pass along what I've learned about choosing the right hook.
Understanding Hook Size
Hooks are measured in either Number or Aught size. And the size of the hook in these two nomenclatures is conversely related. In other words, a No. 1 hook is a lot larger than a No. 8 hook, but a 1/0 is a lot smaller than an 8/0 hook.
When to use Bait Hooks
Bait Holder Hooks
Aberdeen Hooks
Mosquito Hooks
Circle Hooks
When to Use Inline Hooks
Inline hooks generally refer to hooks you add to fishing lures to increase or make the hooking and unhooking of fish. The original inline hooks were the flat-eyed long shank hooks you saw guys putting on spinnerbaits as a trailer hook with a bit of surgical tubing to hold it in place.
But in recent years, straight-eye inline hooks have become very popular both in saltwater and freshwater to replace treble hooks and make hooking and unhooking fish a lot easier while making the lures themselves a lot more snag less.
When to Use Worm Hooks
Straight Shank Hooks feature a long straight shank, a moderate gap, and usually some barbs or a keeper of some sort up near the eye that holds your plastic in place. These hooks are intended to be Texas-rigged and work very well in punch and flipping presentations. If you snell a straight shank hook, you can create a lever action that also helps hook fish in cover.
Neko hooks came into the mix a few years back, and the original hooks that started the craze were actually trout hooks that a few pros were using because you got a better pull point with the worm sitting the way it does off to the side of the hook on a Neko rig. After that, many companies started mass-producing this newer, shorter straight shank with the unique O’Shaughnessy bend hooks for Neko rigging. The better ones now have a hook guard on them to so you can fish them near cover.
Offset Worm Hooks may be the most popular of fishing hooks, largely because bass fishing is the most popular type of fishing. And a simple round-bend offset worm hook is nothing more than a straight shank with an elbow added to hold a Texas-rigged plastic a lot better while keeping the hook point nicely tucked away. Once you learn to rig a Texas rig, you will want a bunch of offset worm hooks. We like a 4/0 or 5/0 worm hook for most bass fishing plastics.
Offset EWG Worm Hooks give you a lot more gap and bite to get through a lot more plastic and still good a good hook in a fish. These became a lot more popular with the explosion of creature baits and swimbaits into the fishing market. The wider gap allows you to rig bigger plastics weedless and still have room for the bait to collapse so you can get a good hookset.
When to Use Combination Hooks
Tokyo rig hooks have their own wire dropper for adding weight to the hook connected by split rings and swivels. They allow anglers to present plastics more horizontal to the fish.
Weighted swimbait hooks have lead molded onto an EWG hook usually with a screw lock keep to belly weight a swimbait so it will sink and swim more naturally than on a jig head for example with all the weight in the front.
When to Use Treble Hooks
Live bait
Lures
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Understanding Hook Size
01:31 When to Use Bait Hooks
02:09 When to Use In-Line Hooks
03:01 When to Use Worm Hooks (Different Types)
04:55 When to Use Combination Hooks
06:04 When to Use Treble Hooks
06:35 How to Choose the Best Lures

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When you have treble hooks you really need a medium moderate rod, personally love the mojo crankbait rod from st croix. It dramatically increases hook up rate. It has become my favorite action by far.

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Great point!

[@samhiss6807]

Thanks for sharing! It's great when we listen, hear and use Dad's advice!

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😆 he still says I should listen to him more often! But yes as a dad myself I 100% agree!

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If you say so

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