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I have endured Mr. Vinnybass harassing me for years, questioning my quanity over quality attitude..so today I put away my finesse baits and brought out the bigger stuff! The good news..I averaged bigger fish (I think). The bad news...my quanity was way down! The worse news...Vinny caught more than me! I learned that I need bigger hooks, lost 5 fish in a row because of baits bunching up on the hook! I even had to buy a larger hook off Vinny ($10 a hook seems steep). It was another fun day on the lake, despite Vinny being up here....I mean thanks to Vinny being up here! But, I'm bringing my own bigger hooks next time!

Line size, hook size and bait is a slippery slope =D I definitely think you get more bites on lighter line and smaller hooks. When tuna fishing you sometime need to go down to a size 4 bait hook on a 5 or 6 in sardine to get bit. Then you risk pulling the hook after you bit.

All nice looking chunks! Way to go!

KillinTime wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 6:52 pm Line size, hook size and bait is a slippery slope =D I definitely think you get more bites on lighter line and smaller hooks. When tuna fishing you sometime need to go down to a size 4 bait hook on a 5 or 6 in sardine to get bit. Then you risk pulling the hook after you bit.

All nice looking chunks! Way to go!

I used to go small hooks on all my baits, but I've decided the fish don't care as much as I did!

Mcfish wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 7:38 pm

KillinTime wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 6:52 pm Line size, hook size and bait is a slippery slope =D I definitely think you get more bites on lighter line and smaller hooks. When tuna fishing you sometime need to go down to a size 4 bait hook on a 5 or 6 in sardine to get bit. Then you risk pulling the hook after you bit.

All nice looking chunks! Way to go!

I used to go small hooks on all my baits, but I've decided the fish don't care as much as I did!

i think it's just best to only go on days that are wide open, then nothing matters.

Awesome job I need to buck up and make the drive cap and otay been treating me good but imma get there again only been once from shore got skunked