What Is Mincemeating My Worms?????

[Kevin Beachy]

Well this is plain weird, and mind you it has happened 3 times now. I'm using big bite baits b2 worm. There terribly tough worms. My question is, Im getting really hard hits but i cant set the hook. When i reel the line back in my worm is just chopped in half. What is going on??? This place in known for it big bass. about 2 years ago my friend caught a huge 25in. bass. So what do you think is "mincemeating' my worms, and how should i set the hook better? Its t-riged.

[Master Bait'r]

Pickerel most likely.  Their jaw is super bony and much harder to set a hook in, and they are also carrying a mouthful of broken glass-like teeth that will even shred hollow bodied frogs, etc..  I deal with this all the time.  

[Kevin Beachy]

Pickerel most likely.  Their jaw is super bony and much harder to set a hook in, and they are also carrying a mouthful of broken glass-like teeth that will even shred hollow bodied frogs, etc..  I deal with this all the time.  

It cant be, the only fish in the pond are bass, panfish such as hybrid bluegill, bluegill and crappie, carp, and some cats. 

[Ratherbfishing]

Maybe turtles

[Kevin Beachy]

Maybe turtles

During the time i do have it on, it feels like a bass......

[Catch and Grease]

During the time i do have it on, it feels like a bass......

Could be war mouth perch, if it was pickerel you would still catch one every now and then. War mouth hit like a train and will bite lures way bigger than they are often just getting the back end.

[Kevin Beachy]

Could be war mouth perch, if it was pickerel you would still catch one every now and then. War mouth hit like a train and will bite lures way bigger than they are often just getting the back end.

There aren't war mouth perch in there either. 

[Catch and Grease]

There aren't war mouth perch in there either.

Out of what you listed, its bluegill. Any of the other fish you would hook eventually. Especially if you use a scent like JJ's

[J Francho]

Why not try a little grub on a 1/8 oz. ball head jig and see what it is?

[Jar11591]

Turtles I would guess. I've had them bite plastic worms clean in half.

[Cgrinder]

Certainly bluegill. Tough worm or not, they'll find a way to ruin it.

[Kevin Beachy]

Certainly bluegill. Tough worm or not, they'll find a way to ruin it.

I hate those little buggers

[boostr]

Turtles I would guess. I've had them bite plastic worms clean in half.

Could be turtles, happened to me yesterday. Was casting under some overhanging trees felt a jerk set the hook and I came back with nothing. Took my RT Anaconda, glass bead, and bullet weight right off. Must likely a snapper.

[reb67]

I say bluegill. Had one grab hold of my june bug U-tail Sunday  and did not let go until I picked it up out of the water. I wish bass stayed with a bait like that.

[gulfcaptain]

Fiesty bullhead cats will do the same thing in small ponds.  They grab the worm, you swing and they have one end and you have the other.  Fished a pond in Louisiana behind a buddies house and they did a number on my dropshot roboworms till I finally caught one of those slimmy bas%@%d's.  And you would be suprised what will end up in ponds over time.  You may not think certain kinds of fish are there but then they show up....ie carp.  Nobody stocks them into ponds but they all seem to have them. If there are birds then there may be toothy critters as well as those pesky larger warmouth perch. Just like Jurrasic Park, "nature will find a way".

[VolFan]

If you're losing the tail past the t-rig, I'd guess (almost guarantee) hybrid bluegill. If it's cutting it in half between the hook point and eye, I'd guess pickerel or turtle.