Thread: At least I know my bait clicker works...

bought a couple round baitcasters with clickers so I can toss bream and maybe get a couple big cats. first actual hookups and my line line gave up on me and i lost the hook! i am still disgusted by this but i'm still trying. but the last four or five times now something is grabbing my bait and running with it. i will let it go for a while hoping that i will have a hook on them when I reel in. don't know if i'm rushing it or if i'm doing something else wrong. i was using 5/0 team catfish circle hooks but i recently went up to 8/0 starting today after seeing a lady catch a smaller cat than what i'm hoping for on a much larger hook than what i was using. same thing.... ZzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzzzZZZZZZZZzzz and then nothing when i go to reel it in.

i'm new to this and have only been going after larger catfish with bream for about a month and a half now. lost two hooks in fish I should've had. knots or line or something which i'm working on. one was mono 17# snapped when a big one turn on me or ran under something and the other the hook just was no longer on some 30# braid i was using. fish had scissors or a carpet knife or something i guess. but the majority of the time something runs with my bait and when i got to reel it in theres just no hookup.

could this be gar? i did hook a nice 3.5'-4' gar fishing this same way but he fought out my hook. he also didn't run with my bait as far as I can tell but that was before the baitclicker. but hey, i'll even take a gar if that what this is pulling my line. need to hook it though. mostly just want to hook a nice sized fish on my line.

i'm stumped but i want to hook whatever it is running with my bait. any advice is appreciated..