Questions regarding hooks

[DumBassFishin]

1. When should one use an EWG and when should one use a regular worm hook?

2. What size and style hook for wacky rigged 4" dingers (using bps wacky rings)

Thanks!

[ethan-333]

1. http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/106449-offset-vs-ewg-hooks/

2. i like  a 2/0 gamakatsu weedless finesse hook with an o ring around the senko

[kcdinkerz]

I use ewg on thicker plastics and worm hooks on thinner ones, just put your bait up to the hook and see if their is enough bend or hook left to catch the fish. a circle hook or octopus circle in 1 or 1/0 works for me with wacky rigs.

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4 hours ago, kcdinkerz said:

I use ewg on thicker plastics and worm hooks on thinner ones, just put your bait up to the hook and see if their is enough bend or hook left to catch the fish. a circle hook or octopus circle in 1 or 1/0 works for me with wacky rigs.

x2. I use a round bend unless i feel i need a wider gap, on a thick bait like a beaver or Ika. I'm not a huge fan of EWG hooks, but sometimes its what is required, even when fishing a pond from shore...

[buzzed bait]

i use an offset worm hook until the plastic is just too big to do so and then i'll use an EWG hook.

[WIGuide]

I use an EWG for just about everything I'm texas rigging. I use them even with thinner plastics because they still seem to work very well for me. For my 4" Dingers I use a 2/0 Trokar Weedless Wacky hook. 

[Fishes in trees]

My advice would be to try various styles and decide for yourself.   My decisions vary on regular gap or wide gap hooks - often for no good reason - just picked one.    However, last year I fished the regular gap more often than wide gap, with fairly thick plastics like brush hogs and lizards and I didn't feel like I missed any fish because I didn't have a wide gap hook on.   When I am throwing tubes with an internal weight I will use a wide gap hook.

[BaitMonkey1984]

10 hours ago, WIGuide said:

I use an EWG for just about everything I'm texas rigging. I use them even with thinner plastics because they still seem to work very well for me. For my 4" Dingers I use a 2/0 Trokar Weedless Wacky hook. 

EWG for all my team rigged worms too. For senkos I use  wide gap finesse hook or an octopus hook. 

[I.rar]

Ewg here too. I keep things to a minimum and use them from size 1 for 4" roboworms and alive shads and up to 4/0 for 5" senkos and flukes. Never had a problem with missed fish and find them easier to remove if/when gut hooked. I do have some 3/0 offsets for the 6" straight tails but that's it. 

[ww2farmer]

I use EWG 100% of the time for t-rigging. No issues.

For wacky rigging 4" Yum dingers, I use the 1/16th oz. VMC Wacky head. Dingers are not as salt laden and dense as GYCB senkos, that extra little 1/16th oz of weight has no ill-effect on the dingers sink rate, with it, it sinks just about as fast as an un-weighted senko.

[WRB]

23 hours ago, DumBassFishin said:

1. When should one use an EWG and when should one use a regular worm hook?

2. What size and style hook for wacky rigged 4" dingers (using bps wacky rings)

Thanks!

 

1 hour ago, ww2farmer said:

I use EWG 100% of the time for t-rigging. No issues.

For wacky rigging 4" Yum dingers, I use the 1/16th oz. VMC Wacky head. Dingers are not as salt laden and dense as GYCB senkos, that extra little 1/16th oz of weight has no ill-effect on the dingers sink rate, with it, it sinks just about as fast as an un-weighted senko.

1. Extra Wide Gape hook or EWG are useful for soft plastics with large diameter bodies to help prevent the plastic filling in the hook gap. If the hook gap is 2X the soft plastic dismeter it's big enough.

2. 4" Yum Dinger is a small worm about 1" longer than your index finger and about the diameter of the average pencil. Rigging a worm with a o-ring eliminate the plastic filling the hook gap, no reason for EWG style hooks. You can use  size #4' 2 or 1 Gamakatsu weedless drop shot or Owner Mosqiuto style hook, depending on your line size.

Tom

[Catt]

Personal preference!

Straight shank round bend on plastics up to the thickness of a Senko & then it's EWG.

[ww2farmer]

9 hours ago, WRB said:

 

1. Extra Wide Gape hook or EWG are useful for soft plastics with large diameter bodies to help prevent the plastic filling in the hook gap. If the hook gap is 2X the soft plastic dismeter it's big enough.

2. 4" Yum Dinger is a small worm about 1" longer than your index finger and about the diameter of the average pencil. Rigging a worm with a o-ring eliminate the plastic filling the hook gap, no reason for EWG style hooks. You can use  size #4' 2 or 1 Gamakatsu weedless drop shot or Owner Mosqiuto style hook, depending on your line size.

Tom

What's your point of quoting me? 

[Darren.]

For wacky rigging, I use from #4 to 2/0 Gamakatsu
Wide-Gap Finesse, or their Splitshot/Dropshot hooks.

Most common for me is a 1/0 Split/Dropshot hook.

Personally I don't use an O ring, prefer the hook to be
perpendicular to the bait, and straight thru the plastic,
which you could do with two O rings cris-crossed at
the top of the worm.

[WRB]

1 hour ago, ww2farmer said:

What's your point of quoting me? 

Have no idea why this ended up as a quote under your post?

Agree the little round head jigs* are a good choice with wacky hooking finesse worms.

Tom

*Jackall weedless wacky are good but $$