I was fishing a texas rig with a 4" black worm, and had two monster hits. One of them, over by the sunken trees, the fish was dragging my lure around the pond, and I thought I had a hell of a fight... until the fight stopped. Both times, the fish spat out the worm, as I wasn't able to set the hook. The tip was still in the body of the bait in each case. I'm using Owner dropshot hooks in a size 1/0 - and the hook may not have a wide enough gap to be effective. I know it's a PITA to rig a worm on it so it isn't kinked and/or sticking out the back.
I may switch to a Gama wide-gap offset worm hook, but they're only available in 1/0 and up, and that's a little on the large size for the bait. I may use a smaller straight-shanked hook instead - the kink of the offset does only a fair job of keeping the fake worm in place, and as Gulp! gets slimy in the water, it doesn't even do as well as that.
I'll try it both ways, and see which will land one of those monsters for me.
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