Third Try's The Charm
 

So the first weekend I went out, as I posted a few weeks ago, I didn't
catch anything. Last week I took the advice posted here, got some
worms, and did better. This time, plenty of nibbles taking the worm off
the hook, but no hook bites. This weekend, I'm going to learn how to
properly thread the worm on the hook, but I do have a question.

Most of the ways to do it are hard enough with a wax worm. How do you
get a hook into the tip of a worm with it wriggling around? I think
that's called Texas rigging, but I could be wrong. I imagine it gets
better with practice, but it's the one thing that's still giving me a
ton of trouble. I couldn't do it once.

-Arccos

arccos wrote:
So the first weekend I went out, as I posted a few weeks ago, I didn't
catch anything. Last week I took the advice posted here, got some
worms, and did better. This time, plenty of nibbles taking the worm off
the hook, but no hook bites. This weekend, I'm going to learn how to
properly thread the worm on the hook, but I do have a question.

Most of the ways to do it are hard enough with a wax worm. How do you
get a hook into the tip of a worm with it wriggling around? I think
that's called Texas rigging, but I could be wrong. I imagine it gets
better with practice, but it's the one thing that's still giving me a
ton of trouble. I couldn't do it once.

-Arccos

I tend to feed more fish than I catch, but here's what I do.

For waxworms, I grab it right behind the head and push the hook point
through the pinched area. I have better luck with 2-3 worms on a size
10 or 8 hook.

I think the reason I lose so much bait is that I do not set the hook
quickly enough.

-ben