Well everyone by now had heard about new kid with fast - ball and all crazy pitches he had, but no one had put a batter in front of me. Well I went to mound a rookie and a virgin as for pitching to a batter, and wouldn’t you know it batter hid catcher and made him look small. So there I was 8 years old and on stage. The catcher just kept saying go - ahead pitch it like you’ve been doing. I took ball beat my glove as I had always seen Whitey Ford do and swung my arms up over my head like Bob Turley and reared back and then forward gripping ball as it slid out of my hands and it headed for home plate with batter standing there ready to hit. The only thing was ball did everything I wanted it to do except hit catcher’s glove, no instead it hit batter and ouch! I know it must of hurt. Well now everyone was just saying and trying to calm me down, It’s Ok just simmer down and do it again. No problem! Here we go again and same thing happened. Now I have two men on bases and my creditability as a pitcher is waning fast. Oh well Rome wasn’t built in one day so I tried again. Low and behold I was awful. I hit third batter. Well that was end of that career but it taught me a valuable lesson. Stick to what you know not what you think you know. See I was a third baseman not a pitcher but I wanted to play so much I at least tried and no one can fault someone for trying except maybe three kids I hit that day.

This story was written by Saul Applebaum ( The Contenda )

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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