| Although live worms are universally recognized as | | | | worms are being used as bait, simply pinch then in |
| a great fishing bait, it seems to me that very | | | | half before baiting up. The point is that if gang |
| few anglers have put much thought into actually | | | | hooks are employed, live worms are presented in |
| using live worms as bait. Most anglers seem to | | | | a completely natural manner. |
| think that attempting to "thread" a live worm | | | | Think about it. What does a worm look like in |
| onto a fishing hook is good enough. That or simply | | | | nature? It doesn't look all "balled up", a live worm |
| hooking a live worm over and over again onto a | | | | in nature is outstretched. This is what gang hooks |
| single hook and calling it worm fishing. Although | | | | enable any angler to do. Present live worms in a |
| fish will bite live worms that are presented in | | | | natural manner, outstretched, the way God |
| these manners, large and experienced fish will not | | | | intended. And as long as your gang hooks are tied |
| bite live worms that are presented in such ways. | | | | with small hooks (as they should be) the hooks |
| Large and experienced fish have been to the | | | | become all but invisible to fish. This, of course, |
| puppet show and seen the strings, if you will, and | | | | results in more bites, which is what all anglers are |
| know that such offerings mean getting ripped out | | | | looking for. |
| of the water by a human being! Therefore, they | | | | With a little research, gang hooks can be tied |
| tend not to bite such amateurish offerings. They | | | | yourself or they can be purchased pre-tied and |
| are looking for food that looks natural. | | | | ready to fish, it makes little difference how you |
| When using live worms as bait, the only way to | | | | acquire them. What's important is that you begin |
| present the worm naturally is to leave most of | | | | using gang hooks for all of your live worm fishing |
| the worm trailing behind the hook or to employ a | | | | sooner rather than later. I've been using gang |
| set of gang hooks. The first option results in | | | | hooks for more than 20 years, and won't fish |
| many lost worms, while the second option results | | | | with live worms without rigging those worms on a |
| in hooking more fish. You see, with a set of gang | | | | set of gang hooks. To me the idea of using a |
| hooks there is a second hook in the body of the | | | | single hook to fish with live worms doesn't even |
| worm that will hook fish that are trying to grab | | | | make sense after seeing how much more |
| the end of the live worm. If very large live | | | | effective gang hooks are. |