Oh yea tips to catch more fish, yea, yea I remem­ber. You might not think some of my other tips the most impor­tant, but they are the ones that insure you and your chil­dren will be fish­ing tomor­row and beyond.

Okay, on to the good stuff…Use cir­cle hooks. Bet­ter for the fish and bet­ter for you. The one thing that you must adjust when using cir­cle hooks is the snatch and jerk tech­nique. DO NOT DO IT. You sim­ply real up the fish the hook slides to the cor­ner of his mouth and he’s caught. Sounds sim­ple right? When you are use to snatch­ing the rod and pulling back quick to “set” the hook, it is tough to get use to not snatch­ing it.

How­ever that is what you must do. Most of the time just the slight rock­ing of the boat is enough to hook the fish. This is excel­lent for kids they actu­ally catch fish they didn’t know were there.