I am 51 yr old and have fished since knee high to an ant hill...I know how to make a hookset. Simple fact is the shrimp was easily striped off if I missed the strike. Since these were small gills, 8" or less I was using a small hook, size 8. The reason for my post was because in other post they made it sound like the shrimp was tuff and stayed on the hook even when bitten. Maybe cooking them some more would help, but the package said fully cooked. They where frozen, if that makes a differance.

One other post did say to lay them out and put a fan on them with some heat to make them tuffer. Think maybe puting them outdoors on a sunny breezy day may dry them up a little. Or maybe I'll just go back to drift worms or beemoth, they stay on the hook pretty good. But I did like the idea of the shrimp smell, more of a fishy smell attractant....