"Nerves of Steel". That's what I was taught it takes for a buzzbait or frog bite. The old BassRat package said it best: When fish strikes, WAIT TWO SECONDS then set the hook. Once you can watch a bass bite your frog or buzzer and NOT react, you have those nerves of steel. I fished with an old man that fished with Charlie Brewer in the 70s. He used 6lb line for his Sliders. He taught me to simply turn my body 90° and reel faster when one gets it. That was 35 years ago and I'm still using that tip.
Thanks last week's podcast for saying my name I the 1,2 3 person every week waiting on it to start and Jonny will say every body name but mine your a stand up guy and I'm very thankful there's a man on the show that has your morals
Great advice Randy! You are spot on. Every year to start out I'm sleeting the hook hard. As the year progresses I have more patience and wait. This ultimately equates to more landed fish. By fall I'm landing 80% of my fish. Thanks again Randy for all you do and will be praying for ya down at Grand!!!
Everyone has hooked themselves on accident and know how little effort it takes to pierce your skin. Just leaning into a reelset usually gets a solid hookset.
I DO NOT do the Gerald Swindle hookset. It’s not about losing fish for me, it’s about breaking rods. High end rods, like your Destroyers, NRX’s, Steez’s, whatever, have such thin blank walls which are what make them so responsive and sensitive but the downside is that you feel like you’re going to break your rods. As much as I love the new Destroyer P5’s I won’t even boat flip fish because it doesn’t feel like it’s going to hold up.
Call me crazy but I think the Jack em out the water hooksets came from all the old timers who used to fish with nothing but stretchy mono.. so especially on long casts, hard hooksets were necessary. Then the next generation saw all the old guys who were so good at fishing, and starting doing the same. And that technique has stayed constant while baits and hooks have advanced far past that
You're right. Stretchy mono and Eagle Claw worm hooks with barbs the size of ship anchors. With today's 46 ton Japanese Toray Graphite/Carbon cloth, SiC insert titanium guide rods, and microscopically sharpened, nano coated, Tarantula teeth hooks, you gotta try to NOT set the hook in order to land em!
I will say this; When I started fishing kayak tourneys, I had to totally change my whole technique of setting the hook for when I'm sitting. Using my normal hooks and tackle and rods, I was losing a bunch of fish. I spent a lot of time and a lot of gear to gear my hooksets right from a sitting position. Heavy thick hooks and broomstick rods......they had to go. Even when flipping heavy cover, I switched to the gfinesse flipping hooks, much thinner and smaller, and I switched to a lil bit softer rod. A stiff rod yanks it out of their mouth or rips it out their lip. I found I lose WAY WAY less fish using a more parabolic rod with a thinner hook. I also changed the jigs I use, got ones with softer weed guards and thinner hooks, like a googan swimjig. I modify the guards on every one of my jigs to make it thinner. And again, im using a med hvy rod, but im using a phenix mh which is more like a m+ its really parabolic; or the megabass levante rods...6'3 mh more moderate. Then my cranking rods, i starting switching any of the cranksbaits that come with ewg trebles----i switch them out, I lost tons on those ewg hook. I like the duo realis nano trebles, and like on DT crankbaits, i leave the vmc hooks. They are sharp and thin. Then when you get bites, you sweep and reel....you don't jack them. Randy is 1000% right. I never use a huge hookset, and sitting from the hobie ive really refined my hooksets and I fish much cleaner now. Even on T-rigs, i use the gfinesse ewg or offset worm hook, When I get a bite on the T-rig, I will actually "set" the hook, but not this huge like reel down and jack em with all my might---- more like reel down, and then sweep up and back, and keep reeling. I also found the softer flipping and jig and t-rig rods.......they allow big fish to make these surges, and the rod gives more and bends with the surge........So its less likely the fish will rip the hook out or rip a bigger hole in their lip where they come off. So randy is right..... These huge, swinging, powerful, show off type "jack the fish as hard as you can" hooksets are no bueno. They look good, but really you are just hurting the fish, putting un needed stress on your knot and hook, ripping a large hole in fish's lip, or ripping the bait clear out their mouth. So please keep on jacking your fish in the tourneys; I want you to lose more fish. LOL
I am a firm believer in waiting and applying a bit of pressure onto fish. Nearly every time I take the time to wait and then hookset (depending on hook size either really hard or lightly) I hook them deep into the bone instead of skin hooking them. I think that this applies to every technique including frogs, the only exclusions are treble hook baits. My belief is that the fish try to get the bait into their crushers when they feel pressure because they don’t want it to escape so that when you set the hook it gets them way deep in the roof or side of the mouth. That’s my long winded opinion.
One of the best anglers in my old bass club never set the hook. He just reeled them in. Always in the money and he won about half the tournaments every year.
I will give this a try, I have broke off a few times on fish and wrote it off to frayed line, but I was also swingin' for the fences on the hook set too😁 Will this work when setting the hook using a frog or other big single hook lures? Keep up the great content!! Thanks Randy!
Dude good video. Man, a couple months back I had my personal Facebook hacked, and I had a page with the same stupid name I use here, and many of my catch clips there had 10k+ views regularly. I can't access any of it. I'm not too broken up about it, I'm working toward tournament fishing anyway because I'm single with no kids and old enough to know what I want out of life lol. I just love creating stuff, so the videos are nice output.
Someone needed to say it lol... My buddy weighs a hundred pounds more and it's a foot taller he he sets the hook so hard it's insane. Way more line breaks for him too.
Wasn't there a video a few back about losing more than a few fish and not placing in the money at Smith Lake? Hmmm..I think I'll stick to the way I've always set the hook. The number of fish I've lost in a full day of good fishing I can count on one hand and still have enough fingers to snap my fingers.
Back in the days of strictly monofilament, I can't even count the days that we had over 300 bites in a single day's fishing and only boated maybe 75 or 80 of those 300. Hell, I've only boated over 100 bass in a single day only THREE TIMES in all my six decades of fishing. That was before ultra small diameter, chemically sharpened, or nano-coated black nickel hooks, 46 ton Japanese Toray graphite or carbon fiber cloth rods, 10:1 super speed, ultralight carbon fiber reels w/13 ceramic bearings, and thermally extruded, Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene Dyneema lines the size of spider's silk but strong as aircraft cable. I'd say you shouldn't have lost ANY!
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"Nerves of Steel". That's what I was taught it takes for a buzzbait or frog bite. The old BassRat package said it best: When fish strikes, WAIT TWO SECONDS then set the hook. Once you can watch a bass bite your frog or buzzer and NOT react, you have those nerves of steel. I fished with an old man that fished with Charlie Brewer in the 70s. He used 6lb line for his Sliders. He taught me to simply turn my body 90° and reel faster when one gets it. That was 35 years ago and I'm still using that tip.
You should be sponsored by Graco lol. That car seat product placement is in everyone of your videos... haha
Thanks last week's podcast for saying my name I the 1,2 3 person every week waiting on it to start and Jonny will say every body name but mine your a stand up guy and I'm very thankful there's a man on the show that has your morals
Thanks for the tip Randy. I loses so many fish trying to set the hook .
Great advice Randy! You are spot on. Every year to start out I'm sleeting the hook hard. As the year progresses I have more patience and wait. This ultimately equates to more landed fish. By fall I'm landing 80% of my fish. Thanks again Randy for all you do and will be praying for ya down at Grand!!!
Everyone has hooked themselves on accident and know how little effort it takes to pierce your skin. Just leaning into a reelset usually gets a solid hookset.
Thank you for this
Thanks for sharing your experience. That makes a lot of sense.
I DO NOT do the Gerald Swindle hookset. It’s not about losing fish for me, it’s about breaking rods. High end rods, like your Destroyers, NRX’s, Steez’s, whatever, have such thin blank walls which are what make them so responsive and sensitive but the downside is that you feel like you’re going to break your rods. As much as I love the new Destroyer P5’s I won’t even boat flip fish because it doesn’t feel like it’s going to hold up.
😎 cool loving the hat!!! Nice that you and the family are doing things beyond fishing😁another good tip🤓
Thanks for those great tips!!!👊🏻 Something to keep in back of my head. Stay Safe & God Bless!!!
Call me crazy but I think the Jack em out the water hooksets came from all the old timers who used to fish with nothing but stretchy mono.. so especially on long casts, hard hooksets were necessary. Then the next generation saw all the old guys who were so good at fishing, and starting doing the same. And that technique has stayed constant while baits and hooks have advanced far past that
You're right. Stretchy mono and Eagle Claw worm hooks with barbs the size of ship anchors. With today's 46 ton Japanese Toray Graphite/Carbon cloth, SiC insert titanium guide rods, and microscopically sharpened, nano coated, Tarantula teeth hooks, you gotta try to NOT set the hook in order to land em!
Thanks for the tip Randy. 👍
I will say this; When I started fishing kayak tourneys, I had to totally change my whole technique of setting the hook for when I'm sitting. Using my normal hooks and tackle and rods, I was losing a bunch of fish. I spent a lot of time and a lot of gear to gear my hooksets right from a sitting position. Heavy thick hooks and broomstick rods......they had to go. Even when flipping heavy cover, I switched to the gfinesse flipping hooks, much thinner and smaller, and I switched to a lil bit softer rod. A stiff rod yanks it out of their mouth or rips it out their lip. I found I lose WAY WAY less fish using a more parabolic rod with a thinner hook. I also changed the jigs I use, got ones with softer weed guards and thinner hooks, like a googan swimjig. I modify the guards on every one of my jigs to make it thinner. And again, im using a med hvy rod, but im using a phenix mh which is more like a m+ its really parabolic; or the megabass levante rods...6'3 mh more moderate. Then my cranking rods, i starting switching any of the cranksbaits that come with ewg trebles----i switch them out, I lost tons on those ewg hook. I like the duo realis nano trebles, and like on DT crankbaits, i leave the vmc hooks. They are sharp and thin. Then when you get bites, you sweep and reel....you don't jack them. Randy is 1000% right. I never use a huge hookset, and sitting from the hobie ive really refined my hooksets and I fish much cleaner now. Even on T-rigs, i use the gfinesse ewg or offset worm hook, When I get a bite on the T-rig, I will actually "set" the hook, but not this huge like reel down and jack em with all my might---- more like reel down, and then sweep up and back, and keep reeling. I also found the softer flipping and jig and t-rig rods.......they allow big fish to make these surges, and the rod gives more and bends with the surge........So its less likely the fish will rip the hook out or rip a bigger hole in their lip where they come off. So randy is right..... These huge, swinging, powerful, show off type "jack the fish as hard as you can" hooksets are no bueno. They look good, but really you are just hurting the fish, putting un needed stress on your knot and hook, ripping a large hole in fish's lip, or ripping the bait clear out their mouth. So please keep on jacking your fish in the tourneys; I want you to lose more fish. LOL
Please do a video on how to keep them hooked and successfully land! More interested in finesse applications. Thank you
I am a firm believer in waiting and applying a bit of pressure onto fish. Nearly every time I take the time to wait and then hookset (depending on hook size either really hard or lightly) I hook them deep into the bone instead of skin hooking them. I think that this applies to every technique including frogs, the only exclusions are treble hook baits. My belief is that the fish try to get the bait into their crushers when they feel pressure because they don’t want it to escape so that when you set the hook it gets them way deep in the roof or side of the mouth. That’s my long winded opinion.
That’s going to be hard for me to do , I’m 50 years old and it’s a normal reaction for me , I’m going to try it though
One of the best anglers in my old bass club never set the hook. He just reeled them in. Always in the money and he won about half the tournaments every year.
I will give this a try, I have broke off a few times on fish and wrote it off to frayed line, but I was also swingin' for the fences on the hook set too😁
Will this work when setting the hook using a frog or other big single hook lures? Keep up the great content!! Thanks Randy!
and tiny tiny hooks for those baitrobbin bluegills!
Dude good video. Man, a couple months back I had my personal Facebook hacked, and I had a page with the same stupid name I use here, and many of my catch clips there had 10k+ views regularly. I can't access any of it. I'm not too broken up about it, I'm working toward tournament fishing anyway because I'm single with no kids and old enough to know what I want out of life lol. I just love creating stuff, so the videos are nice output.
Oh and what I want out of life certainly isn't money. I earn a decent living now, if I choose to squander some of that, oh well
Someone needed to say it lol... My buddy weighs a hundred pounds more and it's a foot taller he he sets the hook so hard it's insane. Way more line breaks for him too.
Thanks for the info too
randy, I’ve been trying to find the round end Gamakatus 1/0 for the rear and a 2/0 red and i haven’t been able to find them for the whopper flopper
My reflexes are so slow, this is what I end up doing anyways. :P The bass is in the boat staring at me by the time I set the hook.
Thank you
What about circle hooks. Fished for red fish with circle hooks and you can’t jerk. Just reel in. ?? Any comment?
Love the videos Mr.Randy B
Good luck catchin them.
Wow that’s weird , I set the hook like a mad man
And very importantly, keep all of your hooks insanely SHARP!
Good luck
Zara spook hook 😆
I see countless "pros" here on youtube not practicing this advice!!
Sharp hooks
Did you say Facebook hacker or fact checkers?
Wasn't there a video a few back about losing more than a few fish and not placing in the money at Smith Lake? Hmmm..I think I'll stick to the way I've always set the hook. The number of fish I've lost in a full day of good fishing I can count on one hand and still have enough fingers to snap my fingers.
What trail are you fishing I’d like to follow your success.
Back in the days of strictly monofilament, I can't even count the days that we had over 300 bites in a single day's fishing and only boated maybe 75 or 80 of those 300. Hell, I've only boated over 100 bass in a single day only THREE TIMES in all my six decades of fishing. That was before ultra small diameter, chemically sharpened, or nano-coated black nickel hooks, 46 ton Japanese Toray graphite or carbon fiber cloth rods, 10:1 super speed, ultralight carbon fiber reels w/13 ceramic bearings, and thermally extruded, Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene Dyneema lines the size of spider's silk but strong as aircraft cable. I'd say you shouldn't have lost ANY!
As a lover of God's great creation the words "rippin' lips" truly brings me a sense of unease...it is disrespectful. In my opinion