Denisfisho Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) I've just recently gotten into fishing with lures and I've been finding that I'm constantly hooking up to weed and this has been in a few different lakes. Is this just a part of lure fishing? I also want to ask has anyone who's swapped to weedless hooks - do you get less hookups of the fish when they strike due to the shape of the hook or is that a non-issue, I tried to google that but couldn't find much. Edited October 20, 2021 by Denisfisho typos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquibblyDibbly Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 It's all part of the lure game challenge mate. Sometimes you can move to somewhere better, sometimes a more aggressive action will keep it away from the bottom and the weed beds, sometimes there is just so much weed floating around that fishing lures is near impossible. You can persist and still catch fish but its harder. You can usually feel when you've hooked some weed, just quickly wind in and try again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirvin21 Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Hooking weed is just part of the challenge. I use weedless hooks in certain scenarios, mostly chasing murray cod in rivers where you need to pull the plastic through loads of weed and fishing up north for jacks and barra fishing right in heavy timber. With hard implosion feeders like cod and barra and destruction eaters like jacks the hookuo rate is ok, a lot of other fish don't expose the hook as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefin Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Im starting to use weedless more and more. Mainly for mangrove roots as I fish for Flathead in the shallows a lot. There is a lot on You tube regarding weedless rigging, Zman go into it in depth. The softer the plastic the better. Not sure about hook up rates, I was wondering about that also, So far so good ! What fish are you chasing ? Howard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 You have to experiment. Weedless hooks are better when you are having problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisfisho Posted October 21, 2021 Author Share Posted October 21, 2021 14 hours ago, bluefin said: Im starting to use weedless more and more. Mainly for mangrove roots as I fish for Flathead in the shallows a lot. There is a lot on You tube regarding weedless rigging, Zman go into it in depth. The softer the plastic the better. Not sure about hook up rates, I was wondering about that also, So far so good ! What fish are you chasing ? Howard. I'll be going out with zman 2.5inch grubs hoping for flathead but maybe bream too. I have watched those zman videos in depth theyre great info. Im tossing up between using 2.5inch or 3.5 inch grubz what would you go with for flathead, size doesnt matter for now I just want to catch and release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirvin21 Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Denisfisho said: I'll be going out with zman 2.5inch grubs hoping for flathead but maybe bream too. I have watched those zman videos in depth theyre great info. Im tossing up between using 2.5inch or 3.5 inch grubz what would you go with for flathead, size doesnt matter for now I just want to catch and release The 2.5inch grubs work well for smaller flathead , I prefer the slim swimz for chasing flathead, they'll both catch bream as well 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefin Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 I have been catching a few larger models lately on 3 ". and 40 m/m HB lures, The thought came to me that big fish like Jellybeans Too !! Howard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisfisho Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 1 hour ago, bluefin said: I have been catching a few larger models lately on 3 ". and 40 m/m HB lures, The thought came to me that big fish like Jellybeans Too !! Howard. Yeah, I was curious what would entice a bite more , a small lure that looks like an easy meal or a lure that's bigger and therefore probably easier for fish to see. Too bad fish don't talk hah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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