all my gills were silver today

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Comment by Leo Nguyen on October 14, 2013 at 10:29am

LOL!! I would say that as you aged, your body has a great ability to sense strikes. Of course, we may be daydreaming more often, creating that lack of strike detection. I think this is the reason why so much investment goes into purchasing braid lines, ultra light strike detectors, etc., etc., which pretty much leave our bank accounts empty.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on October 14, 2013 at 9:39am

Leo - my problem is, I'm not all that adept at detecting the strike. Fish will often get the bait before I realize it has happened.

At my advanced age, I also find it hard to stay awake while fishing - but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on October 14, 2013 at 9:16am

Circle hooks reduces the likely chance of gut hooking, and you're dead on David about during competitive feeding behaviors. When there's an abundant of foods, a cautious fish test and be weary of the foods. When the resources are limited, and many mouths are around to take the opportunistic meal away without hesistation, gut hooking percentage increases due to fast gulping action. This is why I set my hook early even with circle hooks. Minimizing to eliminating gut hooking possibility.

Comment by mike martinez on October 14, 2013 at 8:45am

NICE....

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on October 14, 2013 at 8:12am

Thanks for the pic, Ken.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on October 14, 2013 at 8:11am

Leo has made a point (no pun intended) in the past that the circle hook should be sized appropriately, or you may still gut-hook fish with them. He's probably forgotten more about such things than I'll ever know, so thats good enough for me.

I found that gut-hooking wasn't eliminated, when Ive used them. I believe that has as much to do with competitive feeding behavior among bluegill as anything. The one hook I found this year that resulted in ZERO was the trusty old baitholder. It also has the advantage of having those barbs for holding the worms, although it is too heavy to fish in a lot of heavy weed/cover.

Comment by Slip Sinker on October 14, 2013 at 6:36am

Comment by Mike Martin on October 14, 2013 at 6:29am

Good looking gill Ken!

Comment by Slip Sinker on October 14, 2013 at 5:54am

thought this fish was a white bass at first when i was cranking it in

Comment by Slip Sinker on October 14, 2013 at 5:53am

David ... i would love to spend winters down south especially florida for the winters. its been a dream of mine. would not give up this area spring summer and fall though. really like my smallmouth bass. lol

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