Reg Gap worm hooks or wide gap?

[Paulpro]

Which do you prefer for worm fishing such as senkos,
and why... share your experience with each hook
or just one.
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[gdn443]

I always had good hookups with wide gaped. Octopus hooks have done well for wacky rigged.
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[Erawk]

I prefer wide gap as well. The fish seem to hook themselves!
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[Paulpro]

everything has its ups and downs,up side of your hook
is that the tip of the hook is level with the eye
"if you turn hook on its side you can see"
Good thing about dat your worm swims straight down side it misses fish since the point is level with the eye.

On the off-set hook which I use[cool] the tip of the hook is higher than the eye of the hook allowing I think for more hooksets down side the worm may not swim as straight[frown]
PeacockBassProfessor
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[Paulpro]

The night I caught the Pacu had a choice to use a reg off set hook or wide gap
Went with the reg off set and caught the pacu,so I'm sticking with this type of hook even for bass fishing
30+ lb Pacu..heres a picture of what the hook looked like after the fight with the pacu check it out all bent up last pic in this post [] [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=774897#p774897"]http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=774897#p774897[/url]
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[Edgy779]

I mostly use EWG, or extra wide gap because pretty much all i fish is plastics
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[inyourmouth]

The wide gap has been working well for me.
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[Bassmaster-ND]

All I use is wide gap. Cant go wrong with those[cool]
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[Paulpro]

My buddy who fishes from a sitting position looses alot,once he lost 6 in a row! lol
He doesn't understand why..
I'll work on a video so you can help him figure out why
P.

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[Erawk]

I prefer wide gap all around.
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[Paulpro]

I sometimes use my buddies wide gap,but I buy reg shank off set
The first worm hooks for Bass I used were reg gap so I guess just use to them.

Heres a vid of Alfred himself using Wide Gap catches a nice Cypress trout on a Senko blk,fishing barbless.
We pintch the barbs down on everything even lures.
Its fish like these makes you glad you
pintched the barb down,its a good 6lb everglades trout!
with teeth!

[url "http://youtu.be/Mx-cufE71Eo"]http://youtu.be/Mx-cufE71Eo[/url]
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[Quickcatch14]

I'm a big fan of EWG hooks. All I pretty much use is soft plastics. Although, my biggest bass is a victim of an offset hook.
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[Paulpro]

nice..a lucky hook
The reg offset held up for me to a pacu! check out the pic of whats left of the hook "all bent up"
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[Quickcatch14]

They can for sure be trusted! Looks like that hook is probably ready to be retired. Hahaha
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[Paulpro]

I know!
thanks for checking it out
P.
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[LLOMichalchik]

Wide gap seem to work best for me.
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[Paulpro]

Remember these hooks..the worm hooks from back in the day before all these fancy hooks.For plastic worms back in the day,normally you rig them with the hook exposed..Old school style,never had a Probem with them hooks..
These are the straight shank Blue finish hooks with the barbs on the shank to hold the worm from sliding down,remeber them..I just picked some up and added a weed guard to them out of steel wire,using 61lb wire and a 29lb for a smaller hook.
Mustad hooks using the NEW Mustad Micro pliers.

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