saturday morning bass

[Duck or Bleed]

Good morning nice fish i have been using gamakatsu 5/0 lock worm hooks have not gut hooked a fish in a very long time

[Lard Almighty]

Maybe try a larger hook that the fish can't get in his gut easily? I use 4/0 wide gap hooks for big worms and I rarely gut hook fish.

Also, are the worms you use heavily scented like Gulp or F2? In my experience, fish have a tendency to swallow those pretty quickly.

[tycomps]

already switched to EWG's but didn't have them with me. interesting about the gulp spray, I did spray the worm with gulp crawdad.

update: picked up 4/0 EWG's, the harbor freight long nose cutters (heavy), and shorter power worms. hopefully this will help, gut hooking a fish ruins my day!