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How to hook wiggly worms
It helps if you are allowed to use a micro barbed hook, but micro or barbless my normal ways to hook them are:
(Stephensons Lake is barbless only)
Whole worm - usually hook it through the "saddle" - the prominent, slightly raised ring on the worm.
Half worm - whether one half or both halves at one - hook them just back from the points.
Often secure them on the hook with a maggot or a dab of paste, but leave the hook point exposed.
To get them on - never really had a problem, sometimes helps with a whole one to bend it double, hold tightly, and hook through the "bend" in the worm.
Whole worm or segment can be used. Use a suitable sized hook to the bait. So a whole lobworm will normally be used with a 10/12.
You can hair rig worms using something like a quickstop.
With a whole worm, hooking once is normally enough and this can be in the head, tail or middle. If using a section then cut a few and keep them in water. You can also cut a worm in half and hook both sections. This may work because of the scent released from the cut ends.
A barb will always help keep a worm on the hook though may be banned on most fisheries.
Feed will often be chopped worm. Chopping can be done in various ways with kitchen choppers, pizza cutters in a steel bowl, multi bladed or single bladed scissors in a bait tub or pole cup.
Worm can be fed in a closed feeder. Take a large worm or two smaller ones and cut them but not all the way through. Place the worms in the feeder and cast. The cuts will release scent into the water attracting fish without feeding them. This can be a good Winter tactic.
Canal experts say that perch prefer a lobworm to dendra but feeding dendras is OK. Perch will chase a moving bait so don't be afraid to drag the rig around to impart movement.
It helps if you are allowed to use a micro barbed hook, but micro or barbless my normal ways to hook them are:
(Stephensons Lake is barbless only)
Whole worm - usually hook it through the "saddle" - the prominent, slightly raised ring on the worm.
Half worm - whether one half or both halves at one - hook them just back from the points.
Often secure them on the hook with a maggot or a dab of paste, but leave the hook point exposed.
To get them on - never really had a problem, sometimes helps with a whole one to bend it double, hold tightly, and hook through the "bend" in the worm.
Whole worm or segment can be used. Use a suitable sized hook to the bait. So a whole lobworm will normally be used with a 10/12.
You can hair rig worms using something like a quickstop.
With a whole worm, hooking once is normally enough and this can be in the head, tail or middle. If using a section then cut a few and keep them in water. You can also cut a worm in half and hook both sections. This may work because of the scent released from the cut ends.
A barb will always help keep a worm on the hook though may be banned on most fisheries.
Feed will often be chopped worm. Chopping can be done in various ways with kitchen choppers, pizza cutters in a steel bowl, multi bladed or single bladed scissors in a bait tub or pole cup.
Worm can be fed in a closed feeder. Take a large worm or two smaller ones and cut them but not all the way through. Place the worms in the feeder and cast. The cuts will release scent into the water attracting fish without feeding them. This can be a good Winter tactic.
Canal experts say that perch prefer a lobworm to dendra but feeding dendras is OK. Perch will chase a moving bait so don't be afraid to drag the rig around to impart movement.