If you have a worm on your hook, it's not good for you.This guide will show you how to get the most out of your worms.You will learn how to hook a worm quickly and easily so that it stays on the hook until you bite it!
Step 1: Take a worm and a hook.
You should dig some worms from your garden or buy a container of worms before you go fishing.Tupperware works well if you keep them in a small container.When you're ready to use them, bring your worms out.Make sure your hook is locked up.Our How to Gather Earthworms guide has tips and tricks for finding your own worms.You can learn how to tie a fishing knot.
Step 2: The hook should be stuck into the end of the worm.
Pick a spot close to the end of the worm.He might be able to wriggle away from the hook if he is too close to the worm's head.Don't press the hook's point through the worm if you want to hook your hand.No need to be scared.Scientists believe that worms can't feel pain.
Step 3: The worm must be pushed to the top of the hook.
You would slide a bracelet up your arm if you put the worm up the hook.Just below the hook's knot, position the speared worm.Some fishermen use a half hitch to tie the speared worm to the fishing line.To perform a half hitch knot, loop the fishing line around your worm.Attach the worm to the line.
Step 4: Push the hook through the speared worm if you want to.
If you want to leave a little slack between the two speared spots, choose a spot further down the worm.Go down the length of the worm.The worm should look like an accordion.Depending on the length of the worm, the number of times you need to spear it varies.It's usually 3-6 times.Don't spear the end of the worm.You allow the worm to wiggle, which catches fish's attention better than a tightly speared worm.
Step 5: The worm needs to be pulled down onto the hook.
The "curve" of the hook is where the worm should be moved if it is bunched up near it.If the worm isn't close to the barb, the fish might be able to get a free meal.
Step 6: Don't cast away!
When you lose a worm or catch a fish, repeat this process.It can be difficult to spear worms at first, but once you get used to them, you'll be able to bait them like a pro.Happy fishing!
Step 7: A worm with a hook behind its head.
Don't push the hook all the way through, it should be inside the worm's body.It's much more attractive to fish if you use this method of baiting, as it increases the chance that a fish will take your worm without biting the hook.You will go through more worms this way, but you will also get more bites.
Step 8: Push the hook through the worm's body.
The worm should be around the hook's curve.Don't split the worm in half if you pull the hook's barb through the worms body again.
Step 9: Stop when the worm is all the way up the hook.
The point of the hook should be through the worm.The rest of the worm's body should be limply below the hook.The worm's wiggling will be more visible to fish in the water if the worm is allowed to hang free of the hook.The fish can take the "free" portion of the worm without biting the hook.This method has a high reward.
Step 10: It was cast!
You'll go through them quickly if you have plenty of worms handy.You can still use the torn segments of worms as bait if you can't keep splitting them in half.