I definitely agree about multiple hook sets. I just use the sharpest hooks
I possibly can and that gives me the confidence that when I stick them, I
got them. There are incidents where I lose fish, we all do, but there are
so many variables that it could be and I do pay attention to the reason I
lost the fish, but I quickly move on and if it was something I did I do my
best to change it.

Just my 2 cents.

Chris
"RichZ" wrote in message
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Go-bassn wrote:
What is a "beaked" hook?

Where the tip points slightly back toward the shank.

I can think of a whole bunch of timers I wish I'd set the hook a second
time but didn't.

I can't think of one. Don't make the mistake of assuming just because you
lost a fish, setting the hook an extra time or two might have helped. In
most cases, it wouldn't have mattered one way or another, and in some
cases
it's more likely to rip the hook free or increase the size of the hole in
the lip than it is to bury a hook that's not set past the barb.

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