| While fishing the other day, I had an interesting thing | | | | caught this fish. It must have been one of those "short |
| happen to me. I was using gang hooks tied on four | | | | striking" fish that I used to miss. |
| pound test and doing quite well. I had landed three or | | | | Before I began using gang hooks, many times I would |
| four nice Rainbow Trout, when I hooked into a heavy | | | | get a bite only to reel in and realize that the fish were |
| fish. The trout that I had been landing were in the | | | | biting the end of my worm off. Then I began to use |
| fourteen to sixteen inch range, but this fish felt quite a | | | | gang hooks, which allowed me to present a worm |
| bit bigger than the ones I had been catching. | | | | naturally, and subsequently began to catch more fish. |
| It's funny how this works, but after catching a lot of | | | | And the twenty inch Rainbow was no different. |
| fish, you can tell almost instantly the basic size of the | | | | Many times the fish I catch using gang hooks will have |
| fish. After fighting said fish for a while I got it within net | | | | both hooks hooked in their mouth. When you get one |
| range and netted it. It was a very nice twenty inch | | | | hooked on just the trailing hook, it's usually a "short |
| Rainbow. When I went to unhook the fish, I noticed | | | | striking" fish, that wouldn't be caught using a single |
| something quite interesting. The fish was hooked with | | | | hook. This example is yet another reason that you |
| the back hook on the gang hook. That meant that if I | | | | should use gang hooks for all of your bait fishing |
| had been using a single hook, I probably wouldn't have | | | | situations (especially if there's a live worm involved). |