Anyone who has a hard time beleiving that fish was caught with that hook
don't fish much or don't catch many fish. I wacky rig a lot, and I use 1/0
or 2/0 octopus hooks. They are small hooks, but bigger hooks alter the
fall(action of the lure) IMO, I love the smaller hooks, almost 90% of the
time my fish are going no where on a wacky rig hook, but every now and then
I get one that is skin tagged like the fish in the picture, I have noticed
it happens more when the fish is running towards me prior to the hook set.
That is usually when I miss most fish also



"RichZ" wrote in message
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Lure wrote:
my question is what bait was on that small hook and why in the picture
is the
bait missing,


Drop shot fishing, nose hooked plastics are often lost when the fish
jumps.
Sometimes you catch 8 or 9 fish without losing the plastic. And sometimes
you
lose it on the first fish. But almost all of them float right up and are
re-usable if you are of a mind to retrieve them. Just bite off the torn
nose of
the bait and re-rig it.

Don't recall which of the various small plastics that fish was caught on.
I use
them kind of interchangeably when drop shotting.

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