Hey Rich
That is as thin of a hook position as I have seen. You must be living
right to get that bass to the boat. I generally read your posts with great
interest and have learned a bunch.

We differ on circle hooks.
Beaked hooks work great.....I use gammy size 1 and get great results with a
sweep hookset and firm pressure for abut 10 secs to be sure I have a solid
set. The biggest reason I lose bass( I think) is when they tail grab a
nose hooked bait. I also use 15 lb test floro as a leader for my 14 lb test
fireline.

One point we agree on is that the smaller circle hooks can hook a skinny
piece of the basses mouth. That has caused me to move to larger sizes.

I am guessing that the pic was a drop shot bass. I have very little
experience with drop shotting. Do you always use such a small hook?

Steve







"RichZ" wrote in message
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Because too often, they grab the tiniest bite before the beak leads the
point back out of the skin/meat whatever, and you end up with a very
precariously hooked fish.

Of course this photo could also be used to illustrate why I NEVER use
multiple hooksets. No way you know if the first set it something like
this,
in which case the 2nd set is 99% sure to just rip it free.

http://www.richz.com/fishing/images/no_beaks_for_me.jpg

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