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Originally Posted by Texas_Rig
The fish are telling you what to do, but you think your smarter than them. I am sitting here getting ready to go to work and wondering what went wrong yesterday. I realize the only thing that went wrong was me. I went to OH yesterday afternoon. Conditions were favorable for flipping. So, I went to the grass and started flipping. Lost a nice little 2.5 lber immediately. I set the hook and the fish comes flying out if the water and my bait goes flying over my head. The hook was still nicely tucked inside my D-bomb. 5 minutes later, exactly the same thing; then again a few minutes later. So what do I do? Pick up another bait that if a bass bites it then im probably gonna catch it. 1 hour later and no bites, I pick up my flipping stick again. 2nd flip: I get bit and set the hook and fish comes off again. Frustrated, I pick up another bait and go a couple hours only catching a few small dinks. My point is that the fish were trying to tell me that I could catch them flipping. Instead of making adjustments to my flipping setup, I just kept changing baits. This made for a sub par fishing day. I should have made a color change or maybe taken off my bobber stop. Ok rant over. Hope you guys are getting to spend some time on the water
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I don't think color change was your answer. Don't know what kind of hook you were using or the way you had it in your bait. But that seems to be where the problem lies. What kind of line? Rod? Maybe even the reel speed? I think sometimes a fast reel will pull it out of their mouths just enough to get a little skin and they sling it right out. Greg Hackney just posted a similar rant on bassmaster. I'll post a link. He doesn't answer the question because we all have theories and he's mainly talking bout a jig.
https://www.bassmaster.com/greg-hack...ss-shake-loose
If your hook was "tucked in" then it never even hit the fish...try running the hook all the way through and just barely putting the point in the skin of the bait. Good luck and hope you figure it out.
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