Anatomy Of The Circle-Hook Hook Set

Once you notice a fish has taken bait and is not moving away from bait and is not moving away from boat and tightening line, pick up rod. Then reel in as much line as possible until you feel steady pressure of fish on end of line. Once tip of hook has started to penetrate, hook and fish will do rest. It’s as simple as that. If fish isn’t giving much resistance, you can use a long sweeping motion of rod to bury hook.

Other Benefits

The other neat option that CircleChunk Light has is a bait-stop barb on shank to help with that persistent problem of double hooking your bait. There is no perfect hook, we all have to accept fact that sometimes most bone jarring of strikes never result in a hook up, and some little pullovers result in a mighty deep hook set, but after using these hooks for a year I’m convinced they work better than my old stand bys.

I was a pretty hard sell at first, I’ll have to admit, but I’m glad I gave circle chunk lite a try. I have used them in both current and slack or dead water situations. These hooks perform same wherever you fish. I feel good about using hooks with such consistent performance as well as being a quality-made and super-sharp hook right out of package. After years of trying all kinds of hooks from big treble hooks to kahyle hooks, I believe that improved circle hook Daiichi has come up with is a fantastic option for any angler.

Fishing done right is work, and harder you work at perfect hook set happier you will be with reward at end of your line.

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Williams uses either chunks or fillets depending on what works best for that day. He makes sure to cut chunks at an angle so they are streamlined enough not to spin much.

Ready to Go

We’ve got right bait and figured out where to fish and set up boat for right drift by deploying drift sock according to power of wind. Now its time to look at Jeff’s drift rig set-up. Jeff has experimented with many different snagless sinker styles including bottom-bouncers, weighted welding rods, modified egg sinker rigs, pencil weights, and others but he has finally decided on one that works best for him. He ties a short piece of 20 pound monofilament onto a small snap swivel then threads on eight ½ ounce egg sinkers onto line and then fastens last one to line.

You’re Ready

Well, there you have it folks. Jeff’s simple yet effective summertime pattern he uses to catch blue cats on reservoirs can be used on lots of big lakes across country. Get out there and drift, pay close attention to what’s happening while you’re on water drifting and you’ll be catching blues like he does in no time. Chances are if you spend time on a lake that has some monster-sized blues, you may be surprised just how big a fish you can handle!

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