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Problems with worms


TrevBoy

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I have had some success with worms this summer, for tench mainly. However, I find hooking them tricky -

 

(a) if I leave too much tail hanging loose the small fish grab them, giving false bites.

 

(b)If I bunch them by hooking them several times I deffo dont get as many bites and/or the darned things wiggle off so leaving dangly loose bits again (see (a)). (I stick to barbless hooks)

 

Any thoughts?

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I have had some success with worms this summer, for tench mainly. However, I find hooking them tricky -

 

(a) if I leave too much tail hanging loose the small fish grab them, giving false bites.

 

(b)If I bunch them by hooking them several times I deffo dont get as many bites and/or the darned things wiggle off so leaving dangly loose bits again (see (a)). (I stick to barbless hooks)

 

Any thoughts?

 

Yep, if you're using barbless hooks for worms, use a little bit of rubber (cut from an elastic band, for example) to keep them on the hook. You can buy little plastic things to do the job too, but I can't for the life of me what they're called. However, the snipped up laccy band works just as well and one band will yield enough rubber to keep you going for months.

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I pick up the red elastic bands that the postie drops. Perfect for this.

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I tend to break them in half and put both halves on the hook and this seems to get me bites that I can connect to. I do also tend to lose one of these halves either during the cast or when I get a bite so I'll be following the elastic band advice as well, especially the red ones as this could encourage a Perch to go for it.

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