My question is - Is this a normal hook up rate? It seems like I lost too many. Two of the hits were on the rapala magnum. One gave me a little 15 second pull and gone the other just hit and bounced the rod good but probably never really got a hook. The other 3 were on ribbon fish and all 3 gave me the super fun run at the beginning and I fought them for a minute or so before it just went slack. I never lost tension in the line so not sure what happened. None of them cut the line or broke, I got all my gear back. I was using leaders like Prof. Salt shows in his video with j hooks and treble stingers. I understand it is fishing and "one" always gets away, just wondering if 5 out of 8 is a lot or normal and if there is something I should be doing different?
Finally, just a side note on something I have never seen before and thought was very unique. After I lost one of the kings on the wire leader set up I was reeling in my gear and noticed it felt a little heavy but knew the king was off. When I got it up to the boat, I had a little 6 inch bait fish. I think a hard tail but again I am still new to the offshore thing so I could be wrong. Anyway, it was hooked through the mouth on the j hook. So it wasn't like it was snagged but like it went after the hook. Maybe the little hardtail chased off the big ol bad king so he could get in on the action. HA HA. I did have a shiny tinsel duster above the hook so I am assuming he was after that. But it just seemed very weird to lose a king and catch a hard tail on the same hook!
It did work out in that the little guy did go back on my hook as bait and he caught me the big king.
Tight lines (at least for a minute...
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