When to set the Hook???

[Salty]

Originally Posted by huntin fool

I set it when I feel tat-tat on a sand eel....

I figured the sand eel set the hook automatically.

[Deadly D]

Originally Posted by Salty

I figured the sand eel set the hook automatically.

They do on big trout dont know about them W trout

[huntin fool]

Originally Posted by Salty

I figured the sand eel set the hook automatically.

i thought the bombers would atleast catch fish???

[Salty]

Originally Posted by huntin fool

i thought the bombers would atleast catch fish???

D will have to use his culinary skills to cook you up some crow next week, lil man. You know not of what you speak.

[wtretrievers]

It all depends.....sometimes you dont have to cause they're slamin it, other times they just pick it up & you have to set hard. Was fishin Prien in Jan with sand eel & had a thousand lite & I mean lite taps, caught a couple till I figured it out. When you felt the lite tap you had to drop rod tip then just ease back in a slow sweaping motion till your rod loaded up. If you set the hook you missed every time. Once I figured it out I limited out in 30 mins & caught & released another limit. & yall know as well as I do that its natural reaction to set quick. It took patience!