| So what is the best way to present live bait? The | | | | live bait, but not worms? The exact same |
| best way to present live bait is really pretty | | | | principles mentioned above apply. You want the |
| simple. The best way is the natural way. You | | | | bait to look as natural as is possible. If it's a |
| want your bait to appear to be as normal as | | | | minnow, you want it to look like a wounded |
| possible. For example, if you're fishing in your | | | | minnow. If you're using a leach, you still want it to |
| favorite stream, you want is to seem to the fish | | | | look like a leach when it's the water. The same |
| that the worm that you're using for bait has just | | | | goes for a crawfish, for example. You're going to |
| crawled out from under an underwater rock and | | | | catch more fish, the more natural your bait looks. |
| is now tumbling naturally with the current. Or if | | | | It's that simple. |
| you're lake fishing, you want the bait to appear as | | | | Hook size is also very important with most |
| natural as is possible. The more natural your bait | | | | freshwater fish in North America. And most |
| looks, the better results you will have.What you | | | | people use hooks for live bait that are entirely too |
| want to avoid is the ever popular "worm ball". | | | | large.For example I've hooked and subsequently |
| This is where a fisherperson takes a worm and | | | | landed many rainbow trout that measured from |
| hooks it over and over on a hook that's much | | | | 18 inches to 23 inches on size 10 hooks! For those |
| too large, thus creating the "worm ball". Although | | | | of you who don't know, that's a small hook. Most |
| small fish may fall for this, large ones won't. I see | | | | people would look at a size 10 hook and say, |
| all too much of the dreaded "worm ball" on our | | | | "what are you going fishing for, minnows?" But |
| rivers and streams. It's just not necessary, not to | | | | when you employ fishing equipment such as gang |
| mention not productive and completely | | | | hooks, that's the size hook that should be used |
| unnecessary.A person should employ a "gang | | | | for much of your freshwater fishing. When a |
| hook", especially when fishing with the good old | | | | worm is rigged on a gang hook using size 10 |
| American worm. A gang hook is simply two small | | | | hooks, the hooks are barely detectible, and that's |
| hooks tied in tandem. With some research, their | | | | what you're looking for. If you use gang hooks, |
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