Why did every fish I catch get gut hooked?

[WRB]

On May 29, 2019 at 2:50 PM, Alec McMillan said:

Thanks for the tips y'all. I was using braid and a dobyns fury rod. I don't think I was "clueless" as some jack*** on here would say, but I think I've concluded that they were just extremely aggressive, and I need to set the hook earlier and pay more attention overall. That Jack arse would be me. Clueless as in you didn't react to what was going on underwater with your lure. The most aggressive bass bite from very active bass means the bass was moving when it engulfed your lure and kept moving while continuing to swallow it moving the line without you realizing it.

 

[Carol Knowles]

On 5/27/2019 at 11:24 AM, Alec McMillan said:

Yesterday my buddy and I were fishin a pond in his neighborhood. We had a great day, caught about 15 bass in 3 hours. The weirdest thing was that almost almost every fish we caughtgot gut hooked. I was using a texas rigged craw and he was using a trick worm. We were able to get all the hooks out except for 2 (rip). The only time they didn't get gut hooked was when my buddy was throwin a soft swimbait (but still texas rigged). Why did this happen? Was it something we did? 

Glad you posted this! Learned a lot from the tips... thanks y’all! 

[hawgenvy]

I don't think anyone has pointed out that hook size also makes a difference. I have found that gut hooking occurs much more often with a 2-0 or 3-0 than with a 4-0 hook.  I hardly ever use 3-0 hooks for that reason. Also, practically any plastic bait is large enough to accommodate a 4-0 hook. 

[WRB]

With wacky rigged Senko's a size 2 octopus circle hook resolves gut hooking bass.

Tom

[Glaucus]

28 minutes ago, hawgenvy said:

I don't think anyone has pointed out that hook size also makes a difference. I have found that gut hooking occurs much more often with a 2-0 or 3-0 than with a 4-0 hook.  I hardly ever use 3-0 hooks for that reason. Also, practically any plastic bait is large enough to accommodate a 4-0 hook. 

You won't get nearly as good action with small finesse worms and 3-4 inch Senkos with larger hooks. I use 1/0 for those and rarely ever gut hook bass. Gary says the 5 inch Senko should be fished with a 3/0.

 

22 minutes ago, WRB said:

With wacky rigged Senko's a size 2 octopus circle hook resolves gut hooking bass.

Tom

 

Yeah I typically use octopus circle hooks for Wacky Rigs and I'm not sure one has ever gut hooked my fish. I use 1/0 though.

[NHBull]

Until you figure out the cause.....and I believe it is in the hook set or lack there of, crush the barb to make it easier to remove the hook.  I don't believe  you will miss many.

[MickD]

1 hour ago, NHBull said:

Until you figure out the cause.....and I believe it is in the hook set or lack there of, crush the barb to make it easier to remove the hook.  I don't believe  you will miss many.

I snagged my son's carpeting with a ned jig Friday, crushed the barb to get it out, then kept fishing with it.  I probably took another few SMB on it without losing one.  Braid with a 7 foot ML moderate action rod.  Mod action helps keep them on-just keep a lot of bend in the rod so they don't get any slack.

[JustJames]

why name calling when everyone try to help or answered your question? Admit it and improve, it happens to everyone but you which happened most every bites and on braid line?  humm I’m not sure what to say.

[hoosierbass07]

Your not alone.  I fish where there are a lot of runt/small bass and those things love to swallow texas rigged Yum-Dingers/etc...   What's interesting, I don't think I've ever throat/gut hooked a large sized bass.  Only the dinks get throat/gut hooked.  

[blongfishing]

Same thing happened to me on Sunday. Ended up catching a good many fish and a lot of them were gut hooked. Unfortunately, two of them kicked the bucket (I was keeping them in the live well as I was fishing a friendly tournament. On Monday I fished again and only had 1 gut hooked. I figured out the issue on my hour long drive home from the lake. On Sunday the lake was packed with pleasure boaters and the wind was blowing so I was having a lot of trouble feeling the bait and majority of the time I gave my Shakey head a little lift to see if it was on the bottom and a fish was on there. Monday had no wind and I was the only boat out there it seemed. I narrowed it down to not being able to feel the bite as being the culprit of gut hooking them. I guess a way of fixing that would be to check if I had hit bottom a little sooner but it's a challenge to do so.