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So whats the preferred hookset?
Overhead.
Sweep to the side.
Slow gentle, let the fish set the hook.

Is there different sets depending on bait & species?

Whew!! I thought I was going to have to tell a story about me and the wife when we were first dating.

Iowaboy1 wrote:

Whew!! I thought I was going to have to tell a story about me and the wife when we were first dating.

You wanna talk about it?

Iowaboy1 wrote:

Whew!! I thought I was going to have to tell a story about me and the wife when we were first dating.

Does it involve fishing for bullheads. If it does would love to hear the story.

Dutchboy wrote:

So whats the preferred hookset?
Overhead.
Sweep to the side.
Slow gentle, let the fish set the hook.

Is there different sets depending on bait & species?

All of them including the one handed walk to front of boat with beer in my hand trying not to trip or spill. Very effective for all species.

Livebait with anything under a #1 hook gets a fast reel into fish, over gets a reel to then hookset.

Pitching jigs with braid nice sharp wrist, with mono(which could be favorite) is a big ole over the head cross their eyes hookset.

BB spinners sweeping, same with most long line cranks.

Summer channels there are no hooksets, it’s just get to the fuc#$! rod before it wrips off the dam boat

Dutchboy wrote:

So whats the preferred hookset?
Overhead.
Sweep to the side.
Slow gentle, let the fish set the hook.

Is there different sets depending on bait & species?

I like when the downrigger or planer board sets the hook

My favorite hookset is my buddies running hookset he does on large pike when fishing bulldogs or shadzillas. He takes two large steps followed by a powerful side sweep set. He’s almost fallen off the front deck several times. I really need to film it someday. I use several different hooksets depending on what type of lure I’m fishing

Depends on the type of lure/fishing. Crankbaits, jerkbaits swimbaits I go to the side. Frogs, neko rig, any kind of worm rig I go straight up. Of course this is for bass.

For walleye if I’m jigging I’m going straight up. If it’s a moving bait hookset is to the side.

Could also include the straight-up ice-rod hookset as well as the tip-up line hookset.

Circle hooks. No hookset needed. I fish the surf in Texas in the winter and that’s all I use. 15-20 lb braid, a 3 to 4 ounce weight, heave it out as far as I can, reel up the slack to load the rod put it in the rod holder and wait for the fish to hook themselves. I’m going to give circle hooks a try again this summer on walleyes.

I prefer the kind of hookset that occurs when you’ve been paying too much attention to your beer and not enough to your bobber. Those are the hooksets you’d *almost* rather watch your buddy attempt than yourself

cast and retrieve fishing – the hookset in the opposite direction of the line and HIGHLY preferable if that is also not in the direction of your partner

Eye protection is not a bad thing, just sayin…. yes from experience….

patk wrote:

cast and retrieve fishing – the hookset in the opposite direction of the line and HIGHLY preferable if that is also not in the direction of your partner

Eye protection is not a bad thing, just sayin…. yes from experience….

Reminds me of the story of Bassmaster fisherman, Drew Cook, who took a 1 1/4 oz tungsten weight square to the mouth and broke a couple teeth and his jaw.

http://www.bassmaster.com/news/opens-profile-cook-plays-through-pain

When on the Pond, if there are boats within 100 yards, the subtle to the side hook set…. if there are no other boats, then the jerk it off the bottom in one fail swoop overhead !!! LOL !!!

Looks like you got a few on this thread….

completely depends on the method of fishing. A trolling hook set is going to be different than a jigging hook set which is going to be different than a rigging hook set which is going to be different than a pitching hook set…etc etc etc

And then there’s Fly Fishing. You have the “Trout set”, the “Strip Set”, and sometimes the best thing to do is let the fish hook themselves.

S.R.

I’m working on the Gerald Swindle slack-line hook set…

FryDog62 wrote:

I’m working on the Gerald Swindle slack-line hook set…

Yeah my tourney partner likes to use that one when he’s flipping pads with a 1 oz flipping weight. Problem is he swings and misses more than Miguel Sano. Needless to say I channel my inner Matrix more than I like to admit. Luckily I’m usually in the front of the boat!

I personally like the James Holst 36 inch vertical leap method he uses on ice.

In regards to Musky I almost always set the hook with a big sweep to the side slightly downward to avoid the roof of the mouth (hardest part to drive hooks into)when casting. In the figure 8, set the hook towards the tail of the fish when you can to hook the corner of the mouth(again stay low.)

When sucker for Musky you really have to read the fish and set away from the direction the fish is swimming. I use a slack line (just a couple inch dip) set with a sucker to make sure the sucker breaks free from the harness and hopefully drive the hooks into the Muskys mouth.

Can’t wait to feel that soon – you got me excited!

Half the fun is really putting the wood to ‘em. That lag time between feeling the bite on a jig, plastic, or Lindy rig feels like an eternity. It’s great when you actually hook up. We were cat fishing on the Red River just NE of Winnepeg. We were using circle hooks. My buddy was giving me a hard time for setting the hook like I was bass fishing. Habits are hard to break.

I go with the “pre-bump board” method that also assures social distancing. I rip the rod on an angle towards the guy in the back of the boat as if I was intending to knock him to the shoreline.
1. Fish comes airborne and lands by guy in the back of the boat- short fish – he releases it for me.
2. Just enough drag rips off that guy in back of boat knows I have a fish and he immediately grabs bump board – borderline legal
3 couple feet of drag peels off – guy in back of boat grabs the net, no need for bump board
4 all drag as rod stays bent over from the handle. Guy in back of boat goes brain dead and forgets how to net fish. I have to tell him to get the tape measure because fish is bigger than bump board

i’m not a fan of the hookset in the hand!!!!!!