Missing a lot of bites

[warmouth]

Try'n Hard may be on to something.

I've been on fire long poling beds, really sticking to the fish, and then missed a couple and wondered why that was that I missed a hard hit that felt like the others. I thought about the angles, and maybe they sucked in the jig head first and I set the hook with the bend coming out first instead of the point. It's possible, because I don't miss many fishing that way, when they are biting that hard.

I do have days where my hook up ratio is low. Sunday night I hooked my first 4 bites on staging fish, casting from the bank and then had just a heck of a time. I must have missed 80-90% after that. It just fell apart, heck a male on a bed came up into 12-18" deep and I saw him suck in the jig, and I still missed! Some days I'm off my game. Other days the fish don't fully commit. *

Good advice here though, if it isn't going as well as you expect it should, change something up, try something different, and know that nobody hooks them all every time.



*- On a side note Sunday I was getting more hits without a crappie nibble, than with using one. Odd, but there was a difference that day.