You're saying feel the tap, lower the rod/take up the slack and set the hook? That's what I do with my 4" wacky rigged senkos, these are 10" unweighted texas rigged power worms. I did that initially and 75% of the time the worm pulled out of their mouth as there's 8" of worm behind the hook if they inhale it from the rear. Feeling the tap, lowering the rod, and watching the line for movement (I have hi-vis yellow on order as well) before taking up the 3' of slack and hooksetting seems to have alleviated any resistance that might otherwise cause them to spit it and my hookups are at least 90%. This post was really to show that after previously switching from standard worm hooks because of gut hooking one fish a month fishing everyday to EWG's and not gut hooking any then having to use a standard because of not having my EWG's and immediately gut hooking one that the EWG's were the ticket. Also to highlight tools available for the fastest and safest gut hook removal to give the fish the highest chance of survival. Wow, my heads spinning I gotta go lay down now
I think lard came up with the answer of increasing my EWG hook size from 2/0 to 4/0 since that's what subsequent research has shown is the most popular size and it seems to make sense. I'll keep you posted. Thanks
