| Many anglers use live worms for bait, but don't | | | | 20 years ago, I haven't used any other method |
| understand some basic premises that will enable | | | | for presenting live worms as bait. As a matter of |
| them to catch more fish while using said live | | | | fact, when I go river or stream fishing, I won't |
| worms. It seems that we have all been taught | | | | even go if gang hooks and live worms aren't |
| throughout the years that the only way to use a | | | | involved. If I'm fishing in a river or stream, all I |
| live worm as bait is to attempt to "thread" that | | | | really need are gang hooks, live worms (carried in |
| worm onto a hook and then leave a portion of | | | | a bait bag), small barrel swivels (for attaching the |
| the worm hanging off of the hook to make it | | | | gang hooks to my line), and split shot sinker (for |
| look more realistic. The problem with this method, | | | | weight). That's it. That's it, that's all I've needed |
| which most anglers seem to use, is that the live | | | | for most of my river and stream fishing for |
| worm ends up looking more like a worm ball than | | | | more than 20 years. |
| anything else. This isn't at all realistic, and costs | | | | I'm not writing this article to be in any way |
| the average angler a lot of fish. | | | | braggadocios. Quite the contrary, I just want to |
| So, what's the answer to this problem? The | | | | share with you what has been so effective for |
| answer is really quite simple, it just involves | | | | me. Gang hooks work. I know they work |
| thinking outside the box a little bit. Over 25 years | | | | because I've been using them successfully for |
| ago my fishing mentor JRW discovered the | | | | more than 20 years. As far as I'm concerned, |
| solution to this problem, and since he taught me | | | | single hooks shouldn't be used for fishing with live |
| that solution, I've never fished with live worms | | | | worms. A single hook simply doesn't allow a live |
| the same again. The answer to this problem is | | | | worm to be presented in a natural manner. If you |
| called a set of gang hooks. What's a set of gang | | | | want to catch more fish and start presenting live |
| hooks? A set of gang hooks is simply a pair of | | | | worms in the manner that God intended |
| small hooks, tied in tandem, thus enabling live bait | | | | (outstretched), then either begin tying gang hooks |
| (and especially live worms) to be presented in a | | | | yourself or purchase them 'ready to fish'. The |
| completely natural and realistic manner. | | | | important thing is that you begin using gang hooks |
| Since I was taught about gang hooks more than | | | | sooner, rather than later. |