| Using worms effectively as bait is very | | | | |
| important to having any true level of success | | | | Gang hooks are also tied on small hooks, |
| while live worm angling. Effectively using | | | | usually size 6 8 or 10, and therefore the |
| live worms as bait isn't as simple as just | | | | hooks are all but invisible to the naked eye. |
| "threading" a worm onto a hook and calling it | | | | As a matter of fact a live worm rigged on a |
| good. Sure, this is how children approach | | | | set of #10 gang hooks looks like a worm |
| the situation, but we, as adults, need to | | | | hanging off of your line, without any hooks |
| begin using a more effective way. The way to | | | | in it. Do you think this might increase your |
| effectively use live worms as bait is to | | | | catch rate a little bit? It sure does. |
| employ a set of gang hooks. When a live worm | | | | Couple the natural presentation with bouncing |
| is "threaded" onto a single hooks it ends up | | | | this offering off of the bottom in the |
| looking like a worm ball, whereas when a set | | | | flowing water of a river or stream and your |
| of gang hooks is employed the live worm is | | | | dealing with a deadly combination. The gang |
| outstretched, the way God intended. | | | | hooks rig is one of the most effective live |
| | | | bait rigs ever created. |
| When live worms are being used as bait, they | | | | |
| should appear as natural as possible. This | | | | I've personally been using gang hooks since |
| means outstretched, which is what gang hooks | | | | my fishing mentor introduced me to them more |
| allow you to do. Even if night crawlers are | | | | than 15 years ago, and know from experience |
| being used as bait, gang hooks should still | | | | how well they work. I can't even remember |
| be used. In the case of night crawlers, they | | | | the number of times that I've caught fish on |
| should simply be pinched in half, so as not | | | | the trailing hook, that would have gotten |
| to leave a large portion of the worm without | | | | away if not for me using gang hooks. The |
| a hook in it. The point is that live worms | | | | bottom line is if I'm fishing with live |
| should look like live worms when they are | | | | worms, then I'm fishing with gang hooks, it's |
| being used as bait. And how often do you see | | | | as simple as that. If you try them, I'm sure |
| a live worm in nature that looks like a worm | | | | you'll feel the same way. |
| ball? | | | | |