Hooking a cricket

[CrappieHead]

What is the best way to put a cricket on a hook?

[Crappisaurusrex]

Heres some ideas.:D

http://www.crappie.com/gr8vb3/showthread.php?t=19558

[Breambuster]

For some reason or another, the bream in Texas will not hit a worm, cricket or any insect if the hook point is showing....cover it up, and they'll slam it!!

You can throw a artifical or a tied fly to them with hooks showing and they'll eat it up too. Don't ask me, but that what it takes here.

Chris

[Mo'nBack]

Back when I bream fished, we would tilt the head back with the hook and hook right in the throat, then feed it through the body and come out the rear. This was from the belly side and worked for us for years. We did crawfish just about the same way.

[MAINEIAC]

I totally agree with Breambuster. I tip all my jigs. If the point of the hook is showing the fish will not touch it.

[CrappiePappy]

1) put the hook in under the head (throat) and bring it out the other end
2) put the hook in the "other end" and bring it out under the head
3) put the hook under/thru the "collar" (the shield segment that covers the back)

Removing the large legs, before hooking, will help keep smaller fish from grabbing ahold of them and tearing the cricket apart. Sunfish are notorius "nippers" ... and will "nip" a bug, tearing it apart, before engulfing it ... especially the smaller ones. Getting the bait down to the larger fish, which are less intimidated by the bait (and more prone to sucking the whole thing in), is the best way to avoid getting your bait "stolen" or "shredded" by the "nippers". For the most part, with the exception of the spawn, larger Sunfish will be found much deeper than your average handsized ones. (at least, in lakes & reservoirs, they are) ......... cp

[mperry]

I always go through the rear first. Seems like it works better if the head is near the hook point.

[Cane Pole]

I always go through the rear first. Seems like it works better if the head is near the hook point.

I agree. Shove it in it's ars and pull it out its throat...ha works for me.......

[motor]

Originally Posted by mperry
I always go through the rear first. Seems like it works better if the head is near the hook point.
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[JOHNS]

When u say throuh the rear, does the hook point come out at the head and "show"?

JohnS