{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Shad Foul Hooking

I started tying flies on circle hooks a few years ago to stop inadvertent snagging. I haven't noticed a huge drop off in hook up ratio when fishing streamers on a circle hook either since it's a strip set. Plus you can't snag yourself or any other anglers either ;) 

On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 1:45:23 PM UTC-4, MCartoski wrote:

Hey guys, I've noticed an unusually high amount of foul hooks while shad fishing this year and was hoping someone would have some insight as to what I might be doing to cause this.

I'm using a 'fast sink' sinking leader along with patterns similar to Rob's "shad buster", fishing the Rappahannock around the Rt 1 bridge.  I noticed it last year and the trend continued when I went last weekend; occurring on around 50% of hookups.  I've been purposely stripping more slowly to try to avoid this but I keep on hooking them just in front of the dorsal fin.  

Is anyone else having this problem or am I doing something wrong?  If you have any tips then please let me know!

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