While fishing the other day, I had an interesting thing happen to me. I was using gang hooks tied on four pound test and doing quite well. I had landed three or four nice Rainbow Trout, when I hooked into a heavy fish. The trout that I had been landing were in the fourteen to sixteen inch range, but this fish felt quite a bit bigger than the ones I had been catching.
It's funny how this works, but after catching a lot of fish, you can tell almost instantly the basic size of the fish. After fighting said fish for a while I got it within net range and netted it. It was a very nice twenty inch Rainbow. When I went to unhook the fish, I noticed something quite interesting. The fish was hooked with the back hook on the gang hook. That meant that if I had been using a single hook, I probably wouldn't have caught this fish. It must have been one of those "short striking" fish that I used to miss.
Before I began using gang hooks, many times I would get a bite only to reel in and realize that the fish were biting the end of my worm off. Then I began to use gang hooks, which allowed me to present a worm naturally, and subsequently began to catch more fish. And the twenty inch Rainbow was no different.
Many times the fish I catch using gang hooks will have both hooks hooked in their mouth. When you get one hooked on just the trailing hook, it's usually a "short striking" fish, that wouldn't be caught using a single hook. This example is yet another reason that you should use gang hooks for all of your bait fishing situations (especially if there's a live worm involved).
It's funny how this works, but after catching a lot of fish, you can tell almost instantly the basic size of the fish. After fighting said fish for a while I got it within net range and netted it. It was a very nice twenty inch Rainbow. When I went to unhook the fish, I noticed something quite interesting. The fish was hooked with the back hook on the gang hook. That meant that if I had been using a single hook, I probably wouldn't have caught this fish. It must have been one of those "short striking" fish that I used to miss.
Before I began using gang hooks, many times I would get a bite only to reel in and realize that the fish were biting the end of my worm off. Then I began to use gang hooks, which allowed me to present a worm naturally, and subsequently began to catch more fish. And the twenty inch Rainbow was no different.
Many times the fish I catch using gang hooks will have both hooks hooked in their mouth. When you get one hooked on just the trailing hook, it's usually a "short striking" fish, that wouldn't be caught using a single hook. This example is yet another reason that you should use gang hooks for all of your bait fishing situations (especially if there's a live worm involved).
Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing.com Trevor has more than 15 years of business experience and 25 years of fishing experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country - Montana.
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