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| Tont 23 and I are sitting in my garage tonight wondering who sets the hooks harder than me. when I set the hooks the whole boat shakes. Tonts says Jerome has girls hookset compared to mine, Who ROCKS the Boat with the hookset
may have a drink or two,
it is winter
I am going to the Landing to warm up
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Location: N.FIB | bigman can set the hook like a beast |
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| Bucher's superman hookset! |
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| Try the old "tap on the back of their rod trick" and see how good their hook set is... haha...it is the so funny to have it happen and see it happen....BN is sneaky in the boat and is good at it...haha. |
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| I'm reminded of a story of a rather large man, who on one of his first musky trips to Eagle, set the hook so hard on a fish that the momentum sent him backwards and off the other side of the boat into the lake. He lost the fish. Because he was so heavy, he was unable to climb back in the boat, and his boat partners were unable to help him back in the boat. They wound up having to drag him to shore, hanging onto the boat the entire time, and get him up on the rocks so he could step back into the boat. |
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Location: Northern New Jersey | Jon Bondy's hookset in his river bondy bait jigging videos are pretty legendary. |
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| Funny man.. you must mean at 1:10 and 1:50 in this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mItm11atgo&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
Gonna hurt my back one of these days. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | When one of my buddies sets the hook, I swear his feet leave the boat an inch or two...
That tapping the back of the rod trick works too. I did it to a few people this year. One guy almost lost his Sh*t when he set the hook. I almost went in the drink I laughed so hard. But on the flip side, I almost went into the drink when I set my hook on a rod tap... Karma is a B**CH I guess
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Location: oswego, il | Here is something to try when contemplating such conundrums. Get out a musky setup, attach a 3-4oz weight have your buddy hold the weight and see if you can hookset it out of his/her hand. Take turns. Could be fun at parties. You can't hang on you lose. Make it a drinking game.
just a note. Keep some drywall spackle handy, watch out for the lamps, tv, display cabinets and fish aquariums.
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Location: Northern New Jersey |
YES. That video gets me so amped up. Thank you for that fine piece or entertainment. Now I have to get some Bondy Baits and try to reenact! |
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Location: Aurora | Bill Dance in his prime takes the cake.
Check his old videos.
#*^@ near falls over every time. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I do. Contest at Spring Bay next Summer. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Howie Meyer tries to break the rod. Ranger is no slouch either, he rocks the boat.
Have fun!
Al |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Tonts is in the DOGhouse ! and bobby,...your hooksets seem to leave the fish behind. maybe a bit too masculine.
I have practiced Joe Boucher's hookset,...... many times....He had a segment on the proper way to do it on one of his shows..
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| Me, I bring back just fish lips all the time |
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Location: north central wisconsin | ToddM - 1/7/2014 9:11 PM
Here is something to try when contemplating such conundrums. Get out a musky setup, attach a 3-4oz weight have your buddy hold the weight and see if you can hookset it out of his/her hand. Take turns. Could be fun at parties. You can't hang on you lose. Make it a drinking game.
just a note. Keep some drywall spackle handy, watch out for the lamps, tv, display cabinets and fish aquariums.
We use a bucktail. |
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Location: central Wisconsin | Try hooking up to your 100# yellow lab's collar sometime, set the hook. It doesn't even budge him.  |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Adam Ruschmeyer is a true legend. |
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| sworrall - 1/7/2014 11:01 PM
I do. Contest at Spring Bay next Summer.
NO spinning rods Steve, I am on to your tricks,I have seen this
I am going to the Landing to warm up
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| sworrall - 1/7/2014 11:01 PM I do. Contest at Spring Bay next Summer. Riddler gets my vote. I've seen it demonstrated on a poor metal folding chair, and on muskies. No contest here.
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Location: Greenfield, WI | My hook set in combination with my sharp hooks, has been known to pull a shadow from around a stump! |
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| For me it depends on whether I am paying attention or not. I can hammer the hooks home with the best of them if I am focused and ready. But if I'm daydreaming or haven't seen a fish all day? I couldn't pull a hookless bait from the mouth of a toothless musky.
If your rod goes "whoosh!" and the drag slips, that's probably good enough. If you're straightening hooks, that's probably too much. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | I'm all over with mine. Depends on how focused I am. I was with my brother and a buddy on LSC, and they were both laughing so hard, joking that my foot was going to go through one the doors on my casting deck. We were having so much action that day that every 5 minutes, one of us had a hit. At one point, I flung a pike that was probably high 20's, from about 30' out up and hit the side of the boat. Then, there are other times where I want to shoot myself after losing a fish because I know I didn't budge the Dawg in its mouth. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I'm thinking the only hookset that matters is your own, and is dependant on the lures and tackle you are using. If your hooks are sharp it doesn't take much. |
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| horsehunter - 1/9/2014 5:44 PM
I'm thinking the only hookset that matters is your own, and is dependant on the lures and tackle you are using. If your hooks are sharp it doesn't take much.
there is nothing serious here, just fishing for good stories
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| Steve Van Lieshout - 1/9/2014 12:46 PM
My hook set in combination with my sharp hooks, has been known to pull a shadow from around a stump!
This is my fave, Not to out to do you Steve but one time on Oahe I got snagged and ended up pulling the plug on the dam |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Once I snagged up and pulled the entire dam down. Thought is was a big Pike hitting. |
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| For not a very big guy Larry Dahlberg sets the hook like a Champ! He can set as hard as anyone in the game...otherwise my fishing partner Ed shakes my 620 like its a canoe. Hooksets are free and Ed certainly takes advantage of it! I've seen him slam hooks home on many fish and even thick cabbage. Classic hooksets!!! |
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Location: NW Iowa | Louie gives me a hard time about not setting the hooks hard enough but I seem to always put more fish in the net....G-rome I didn't say anything about your hook set....that was all Louie:). |
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Location: New Hope MN | Do I win?
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