Use a jig head, and you will drastically reduce gut-hooking.
Went to the “medium” pond again this afternoon, after giving the big pond a 15 minute second chance.
Man they were hungry! The first 45 minutes I couldn’t even catch my breath. I’d get a bite the second the hook hit the water.
It slowed down around 4:30 as the sun was starting to see. I did get a second wind around 5:00, albeit not quite as exciting.
None of them were of any respectable size, but it was still a good time.
I managed to remove all but one gut hook, and then took the advice from yesterday. I switched to a long shank hook, which was much easier to remove. Interestingly enough, it did seem like over half the time it would hook much deeper in the fish - the first hook almost always set in the lip.
Total time was around two hours, and I was late to dinner
I’m not positive on the count, because I go off of the pictures I took. Should be right at 40, give or take just a few. I would imagine you guys have had much bigger days, but it’s the most this amateur has had in many years.
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I’ve had mixed results with that. I get zero gut hooks, but I get my bait robbed a lot?
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Nice! The colors on the last two are pretty.
Bob
Cool, good trip.
Creativity is just intelligence fooling around
it is a KABOOM and the reason the bluegill went bye bye is the predators were waking up and the hunt was about to begin
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Yes, it is, congrats!
Good times! Congrats on the catches.
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