Anyone missing alot of bass on shaky head??

Question

Recently started to fish shaky head with jackall's flick and shake lures. I seem to miss alot of bass when setting the hook, and the hook seems to set on the outside of fishes mouth. Has anyone noticed the same problem

Answer 1

that happened when i was fishing of a little cliff about 5 feet high and i go the fish out of the water and i fell of i think i because the has to swallow to whole worm of eat it from the front because it hook is at the front of the shaky head

Answer 2

I haven't finesse fished since last winter, but even then I didn't have that problem. I also wasn't using the flick shake! I use Strike King shakey heads and really don't have problems with missing a lot of fish. I have missed some, but I've missed some on everything! I would try wacky rigging a senko with a regular wide gap finesse hook and see if there's a difference.

Answer 3

A trick I have learned with finesse lures and other lures such as top water is the give the fish time to take it in. Even when fishing a texas rig I had to train myself to NOT set the hook automatically as with crank baits or jigging.  I usually give a  thousand-one thousand-two count before setting the hook and I have been more productive in landing fish