Well guys this week has sucked, I lost my trolling motor and have been skunked for the third day in a row now...
But this day was different I tried everything but figured out they wanted 12 inch worms so I started throwing ole monsters and berkly power worms, I got 5 good bites and missed every fish, I would set the hook and feel them for a split second and then they would spit the hook!
I've never had problems hooking bass on my 12 inch setups untill now, you think it was just bad luck
I'm using a 7'0 ft MH Fast action shimano zeles rod with a 7.3 tatula, spooled with 50lb braid and a 14lb flouro leader with brand new 6/0 cutting edge eagle claw EWG hooks.
I'll go through my process and maybe y'all can point out something I'm doing wrong,
First I feel the first ticks of the bite then I reel up all slack until I can barely feel some of the fishes weight and then I set the hook which is 1-3 seconds after they take the bait.... I'm putting all my force into it due to the thick wire hook and thick bait. Does that sound right? One of the bass I set the hook on complety took my worm, like I pulled it up and it was just a bare hook....