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Location: Illinoise | I was watching Bob Mehsikomer's show this past Saturday. It doesn't seem like he puts a lot into a hookset. He lifts the rod and then reels in real hard. I always try to cross their eyes with a hookset. Maybe, I'm doing it wrong, what's the proper technique? | |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I pop 'em, HARD! Had too many slip me when I was trying the crank and pull method, didn't work for me. | |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I see the BobM theory, that you probably AREN'T going to put all that much pressure on a fish anyways if the fish is more than about 10ft away....but that being said two things:
a. I usually forget to set, and do the BobM
b. my hookup percentages are PRETTY good, I think.
c. I do hookset when I remember too
d. I almost go off my feet on a sucker hookset
e. When I lose a fish, invariabley I set/reelfast too late or...
f. MY HOOKS WEREN'T SHARP ENOUGH.
My thoughts are this: ONE HOOKSET (not 2, the second gives slack, slack is bad), set the rod SIDEWAYS across your shoulder(don't get their momentum turned out of the water, thrashing and water flying and jumps are good for the camera, bad for boating), reel like a crazy rocket monkey, don't lose that bend in the rod, plung their head DOWN if they try to come up, and lastly....to quote Steve Herbeck, GUERRILA FIGHT'EM!
I lost 3 nice fish this last year:
I. just nibbled, and I set AWAY from the fish on the 8
II. one the hooks where RUSTY, ie. really not sharp
III.Fish won, I lost, just too big for me to handle UNDER the boat and 15ft down....I got whupped....one to learn from.
Fights I. and II. I will not do again, I can handle those....III. I just plain got beat...sometimes we get beat! Set hard if you remember too....reel like a crazed rocket monkey always!
Slamr
*I have a patent pending for the phrase "Crazed Rocket Monkey" | |
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Location: Chicago, IL | I 100% beleive in putting the "balls" to the fish. One thing about the BobM deal I do beleive is that yes you should always keep constant pressure on the fish, but also drag the fish especially when the fish is facing you. When a fish is facing me I try to actually move around to keep a tight pressure on the fish so that the hooks dont change directions in its mouth. I have lost some fish on certain baits, but if you dont give the fish a chance to change the hook directions it will usually work out for the better.
-Phil C. | |
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Location: north central wisconsin | It depends on where in the cast I hook up, but my reflexes quite quick with a very stiff set, as often evidenced by the many stumps in Petenwell that I've sent to serious steel. Fish right at boat/shore side hitting hardbaits, I don't quite set as hard, as I've seen this counterproductive with superlines. I do give a stiff snap, and that is all that is ever neccassary for a boat side fish, even with a big Reef Hawg.
I lost a fair number of fish last year due to different factors, but one really stands out. A 52" class fish(would have been my longest for sure) ate my 8" Walleye Reef Hawg and I set hooks before the fish totally clamped down on it, and hooked her on the tip of the snout. I had the fish up to the boat once(long enough to tell my fiance I was going to lose it), then gone. This happens once in awhile, and happens to alot of people with bucktails, and toppers alot, where they see the swirl, or the fish inhale it, and set before they clamp down. My fiance lost 4(barely hooked) and missed another 6 muskies(only 2 were sub 40"ers) in one night in 02' by jumping the gun. She is still mad about that day. She missed quite a few more before the season was over to ease the pain of "the" night, but it still hurts us both to think about it.
Edited by Reef Hawg 3/3/2003 8:08 AM
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Hookset?