We take the first installation, the simplest installation, paternoster, loop tap, nothing smart. I recommended using it during the current. If you need to go fishing in such a way that the fishing is combined with friends in the glass, I digress... this is a montage that hooks the fish itself. A correctly tied paternoster is a feeder hook if the correct, sharp hook is installed. When we see a bite on a quiver tip, the fish is already holding the bait in its mouth.
Hooking with a paternoster in the current
We have a current. The leash will tighten one way or another. The fish is twitching, it needs to make such a movement for us to see such a reaction on the quivertype. Hooking in sport fishing, when fishing with a paternoster, and even behind the head when people are running, is wrong. I always cut smoothly. If you have single pokes, perhaps the fish is simply tormenting him by the tail, or hitting him in the feeder. Although usually a feeder, the quivertype's reaction is smooth. When a fish moves something here, the smooth movements of the quiver. As a rule, we do not react to them.
When a fish is hooked, it is either a series of such twitches, smoother, or moving away; the fish is already holding the hook in its mouth, and most likely has already hooked itself. If we snoop around with all our proletarian hatred, we will either tear off a piece of its lip, or tear the thin leash, or the hook will simply begin to cut through, and the fish will come off when retrieving. Therefore, we gradually took the feeder, and smoothly pulled it up, and at the same time we began to rotate the coil.
In this case, the feeder does not fly off the point. If we hook sharply, there is a school of fish at the point. We snuck around and dispersed everything. This is still possible at the starting feeding, when we just throw in the porridge. And in the process of fishing, everything needs to be done more smoothly. Smoothly lifted, smoothly moved.
The nature of the strike
The nature of the hook when fishing with a float depends on the ratio of the length of the fishing rod and the length of the fishing line:
• if the length of the fishing line is slightly longer than the length of the rod, you need to hook with a short movement of the rod, using your hand and partially your elbow. In this case, there is no need to swing the rod widely, since this will not give a sharp, but a slow hook, and when catching large fish it will easily lead to a line break;
• if the fishing line is long, and the float is released far, then we hook with a wider swing of the fishing rod, in this case we also work with our shoulder in order to quickly remove the slack in the fishing line that forms.
The effect of hooking depends both on the movement of the angler's hand and on some other factors. For example, if the hook tip is deeply hidden in the nozzle. In this case, you need to cut hard. You should also hook it hard if the heavy float is deeply immersed in the water, because additional effort is required to overcome water resistance.
Line slack
Another option that is killing me. Shooting, so to speak, a quivertip, or when the line just sagged. This says that the poor fish has already eaten your hook, and it floats with the flow, dragging the feeder with it. Sagging means that it floated towards the shore, and our fishing line is slack, slack. Hooking here means just tearing the fish away from the tackle, or pulling out one lip. The fish is already hooked and struggling with our feeder. Therefore, in all cases, if there are such movements of the quiver, we smoothly remove it.
Proper landing of fish on shore
After the hook is made and the fish is on the hook, you need to pull it out of the water, and make sure that it does not come off. The following tips will help you not to be left without a catch:
- Don't let the fish loosen the line . Because if there is no tension and if the fish does not “sit” firmly on the hook, it can easily break free. Therefore, try to maintain the tension, right up to the shore.
- Do not let the fish go into various shelters , otherwise it will simply swim behind the nearest snags, reeds, or other aquatic vegetation and you will easily tangle your gear. After which you will be left without them, and the fish itself.
- When catching large fish, in order to avoid breaking the rod or breaking the fishing line, use such a convenient device of any spinning reel as a friction clutch . The friction allows you to unwind the fishing line towards the fish, due to the strong tension it creates. The force with which the spool begins to move can be set by turning the regulator on the reel itself, and checked by simply pulling the line with force.
- Also, if you catch a large prey, do not ignore the possibility of using a hook or a landing net . If you don’t have a landing net, you can make it yourself, you can read about it in this article.
When to strike sharply
When do you need to make a sharp cut? When you fish in still water, on some lake, and use a long leash. Imagine that it lies, sinks somewhere, and a fish there, at a height of three meters to the bottom, somewhere begins to gnaw on our hook. It is clear that this will be a minimal movement, barely. There the sweep is more sweeping, because we have a huge shoulder. We move the feeder, and the hook is right there. The hook here looks like this: a smooth pull-up that goes behind the ear. The longer the leash, the wider the hook.
I was once told that you are trying to turn the fish purple. People didn’t understand that the leash was three meters long, and you had to move it behind your ear to feel if there was a fish. This fish already had the hook in its mouth, but its bites were barely noticeable. Or another option. I understand that in amateur fishing, not everyone will do this, and that it sometimes makes you angry and stressful. But if you have a very strong edge, the feeder fell, and the cord or fishing line fell on this edge, and we don’t see everything that happens here with our hook, no matter what equipment we tie. But if the paternoster detects the fish on its own, then the inline will not even detect it. We are exhausted, we have eaten everything, but there are no bites. And so from time to time.
What are we doing as athletes during competitions? We begin to count the second at which the fish has our bait in its mouth. At the same pace, the fish bites at the same time. Believe me, this is actually true, it happens very often. Then we don’t look at the quivertype at all. No, you have to look, I’m exaggerating. But we count. They cast it, no bites. We counted to ten seconds, one touched the feeder, we were exhausted. Everything is intact, next cast. We counted 20 seconds, we were exhausted, everything was fine. The next cast, 30 seconds, will exhaust you - and we’ll suck. The fish took it from us, nibbled it, and threw it away.
That is, we find the interval when the fish actually takes our bait, we count it, make a hook - it’s already quite sweeping there, because the fish has just taken it. Not sharp, but sweeping. So that through the edge, through these rubble, all the loops straighten out and reach the serif. Then, having discovered this time, they abandoned it, counted to the required interval, tightening up. And there is a fish hanging there. You can catch it this way too. This concerns the paternoster.
Carp bite
Nothing could look more spectacular. If the tip of the feeder unexpectedly, without preliminary vibrations, deviates almost 90° and stays in this position for several seconds, then don’t chalk, hook! You've got a carp on your hook! If you miss the moment of hooking, then this threatens to break the rod, as the tackle may fly off the stands. If such a situation does occur, it is recommended to immediately release the reel brake. Always keep an eye on your feeder.
There are almost imperceptible bites
Passive fish, small crucian carp or carp may exhibit this behavior. The tip of the feeder barely oscillates, and there may be no stretch at all. This caution is terribly inconvenient for the breadwinner. It is surprising that the quivertype is generally able to catch and demonstrate this type of bite.
With the experience gained, you will learn all the nuances, learn to hook in time and not pay attention to situations when the fish is simply “playing” with the feeder, slightly “punching” it.
Hooking when fishing on a feeder.
When fishing on a feeder, special attention should be paid to hooking. If you decide to use exclusively braided fishing line when fishing, then you should not make a sweeping hook, because these are not “oak” donks. Such an act can not only leave you without the desired catch, tearing the bait out of the fish’s mouth, but also deprive you of the leash as a whole.
To achieve a positive result, when hooking, it is enough to take the feeder from the stand and move the top of the feeder about one and a half meters to the side with a fairly quick but at the same time smooth movement.
At this stage, your main assistant will be the braid itself and its resistance to stretching. Using monofilament line, to get a good hook at a long enough distance, you will have to step back a couple of steps.
Do not forget that the ideal moment for hooking must be selected based on the bait used and the desired prey. So, if you plan to catch a cautious tench on a crawl, then you should slow down a little to wait for the moment when the fish swallows the bait. Otherwise, you'll yank the crawl right out of the fish's mouth.
Bite on the feeder
Author of the article: Vitaly Leonidovich Ivanov, 2021.
Paternoster = self-hook
I repeat once again, a paternoster is a tackle that detects fish itself. When she pulls to the side, on a thin, good, correct hook, the resistance of the feeder is at the bottom, and there is slack when the hook gets into the fish’s mouth, and then tension appears. This should be enough for the fish to detect itself. But we don’t do any sharp cuts to the paternoster. It will probably be easier to reduce the hook and make it thinner if such twitching has already driven you to white heat. This means that the fish cannot swallow your blunter, heavier hook normally. She's probably embarrassed by her weight. But the reaction to this is nothing. And waiting for a large bream to bite and our favorite shooting starts is also not always the case.
Cutting to the feeder with inline installation
Inline is the most magnificent equipment. Sometimes I like her so much, and sometimes she makes her so angry. Where it must always be applied is competition. If your entanglement rig breaks, the fish should swim away without the feeder. The feeder moves freely, this is called inline. I don’t know if the fish themselves said that this is more convenient for them, I won’t get into polemics. But the feeder slides freely along the main line. I use inline and always knit with a short pull for the weight. This gives additional freedom on the water, and bites, especially in the current, are easier to see.
If you just hang the inline so that it slides with the feed, it presses the main line. Very often, especially on a muddy bottom, the feeder itself will press our base dead-tight, and we will end up with an underdeveloped paternoster or a bad inline, this is wrong. Small cords were tied and placed on a bead. Runs freely, the simplest and most sensitive equipment.
Proper hooking
The strength of the hook depends on the method of its execution:
- when fishing with a light float rod for small specimens on the surface of the water, it is done with a sharp and short movement;
- when fishing in the current, we hook with a smooth, accelerated, but not wide movement;
- when fishing with a large bait (earthworm, for example), we make a sharp, but not wide movement of the hand;
- if the fishing line is loose or a heavy float with a load is attached to it, make a sharp and wide swing.
What does it mean to hook a fish? Essentially, you need to create a situation in which the float moves in the direction opposite to the direction the rod is swinging. In this case, the force is transferred more quickly to the hook, which will grab the fish’s lip harder.
Why do you need online?
When is online necessary? In competitions, so that the fish swims away. On large fish, so that it breaks off and swims away, at carp competitions only inline, on paid reservoirs it is allowed almost everywhere. It is very cool to fish when you want to enjoy the bites. Bites on the inline look completely different from those on the paternoster. On the paternoster it is twitch-twitch, and on the inline it is smooth bends. Even small fish work wonders.
But during the flow, the inline still sticks. Everything is tense, and there is no effect of freedom that should be on the inline. The current will still pull on the main one. Fishing line, and everything will turn into a paternoster for a bite. But as a rule, the fish itself is not detected on the inline, it must be hooked. There is no such rigidity. The fish feels the tension and will find the moment to spit out your bait or prick itself on the edge of the hook. And the feeder is not involved in this. Especially if the feeder is soft, you cast, there are bites, but there are no fish.
For still water, this is a super rig that allows you to seduce more delicate, inactive fish, and just have fun. On current, if it is not a competition, I would use a paternoster. A current is a paternoster, a still body of water is an inline. And we monitor online. If you want to barbecue on the lake, tie up a paternoster, throw it in, and catch it.
Carp hooking. How to hook carp correctly
Hooking a carp will be successful only if the angler is close to his rod when biting.
The process of choosing the moment when it is necessary to hook is already quite complex, but if it is carried out very hastily, then the chances of success are sharply reduced. In addition, sometimes the fisherman does not have time to make even a hasty choice, so he has to rely on luck and hook at random. If the angler plans to use his right hand to make the hook, then the rod should also be positioned to his right. If there are two rods, then each of them should be located on a stand, also to the right of the angler. Hooking during a rapid bite can threaten the line, so in such a situation it is recommended to position the rod at an angle of 450, while the reel bail should be closed. As soon as you feel the carp, you need to move the rod in your direction. This will help the hook stick securely into the fish's mouth.
Determining the best time to hook is quite difficult. The softer and smaller the bait, the earlier you need to hook. If you use crumb, then it should be almost instantaneous. If the movement of the carp, which has taken the bait, continues to be calm, then you need to carefully place the rod in your hand, closing the reel, and wait for the moment when the line is tensioned. After this, you need to make a good, confident hook.
If the distance is very large, then the hook must be performed several times, so you need to understand that it will be very difficult to break the line at such distances. It is also recommended that over long distances the hook be made not upward, but parallel to the water. However, the carp can also move in your direction, this can be seen by how the fishing line will sag. Hooking in this case will be very risky, because the hook can be torn out of the fish’s mouth. You need to wait for the carp to change course, or reel in the fishing line and strike to the side.
In the case of heavy bottom sliding weights, determining the direction in which the carp is moving is quite problematic, so you should rely on luck when hooking. If the bite is hardly noticeable, then you need to wait until the line trembles for the second or third time. The reel arm should remain open in case of a quick bite, and closes right before you are about to hook. If your signal is electric, which does not have an electronic display, and it does not show the movement of the fishing line, you should use a regular signal in conjunction with it, which will show the movement of the fishing line, and the electronic device will only give a signal. Many lovers of carp fishing make the mistake of starting to hook at the first bite and moving to the side, but you shouldn’t do this, you need to wait, because the carp can take the bait from the next bites.
When to hook with inline?
How to react to a bite online? First of all, they are always smoother. Unlike paternoster. Inline transmits even the very first ones... As soon as the fish took our bait into its mouth, inline will already show. Therefore, when fishing inline for small fish - roach, silver bream, rudd - you can react to the very first poke. If the hook is sharp enough, the fish has just taken the bait, the bait is usually minimal (small hook - small bait), we react with a sharp hook and take out the fish.
If at the same time you tried to react to the first single attacks once or twice, and there were no fish, then we wait, the online will give us something like this. This is from a series of several twitches, when the fish had definitely already taken our bait into its mouth and swam. It's poke-poke-poke, poke-poke-poke. The repetition of two or three quivertype movements in a row may be barely noticeable, but they are repeated - we make a sweep, without fanaticism, but quite sweepingly.
Mistakes made by fishermen when biting
- There is no hooking after the bite , but immediately there is a leisurely rewinding of the reel or other manipulations. This is mistake. After the bite, hooking should be done in any case. The use of any fishing tackle that includes a hooking element - the hook provides for hooking after a bite.
- The hook is too strong. The lip of not every fish will withstand a strong hook (you can easily tear the soft lips of, for example, a perch), and sometimes during a strong hook the hook will simply fly out of the fish’s mouth without catching. You need to hook in moderation and based on the strength of the fish’s lips, the size of the hook - the weaker these indicators are, the weaker the hook is needed.
- Cutting too early or too late. Not every fish takes the bait confidently. The ideal time for hooking is when the fish has taken the bait in its mouth and is trying to swim away with it, at this time there is a confident bite on the float or the tip of the rod. To prevent the fish from being scared by your rig (tension of the rod tip or pressure from the plunging float), use a very sensitive tip of the float or rod (depending on what you receive the bite signal for. Late hooking with the thought that the fish will swallow better bait and hooking will be successful also often does not bring the desired results.If the fish senses something negative (the taste of the bait, the tension of the fishing line or just a bad bite) - it will spit out the bait and hooking will no longer be needed, so you need to hook on time.
Variations of quivertype twitchers
On inline it very often happens that it wobbles smoothly. You hook it - everything is whole. I think that the fish are swirling around the cormak, or the cormak itself is eating. On the paternoster it looks a little different. There have been cases when a roach, 200 grams, did this in a stagnant body of water. something happened in the water. All the hooks were empty. And when the carp fish took the bait, it was bent, only then could it be hooked. If you reacted to some movement once, twice, and there is no one there, we just wait for changes, they will definitely come. This is the difference between an inline and a paternoster.
But they also have common points. The main thing is that the thicker the hook and leader, the more sweeping, sharp hooking we can do. The thinner the tackle, we forget about all the throws. Smooth pull-up, with a long leash - smooth, long pull-up of the feeder, very long, and smoothly reeling out the fish. Pulling when the feeder is shaking, running up and running back three meters - this makes no sense. Author: Youtube channel “Ibis Fishing and Tourism”, typing: Pike.Pinsk©
Is this even important to know?
Of course, real experts know how to hook fish with a spinning rod, how to do it competently, and they don’t even have any doubts that this process is the basic element in hunting a predator. Hooking ensures a rigid fixation of the fish on the hook. In most cases, the fixation ensures that the lace or excellent specimen is lifted onto the shore or into the boat. Finding the right moment to hook is not difficult. The main thing here is not to hesitate and immediately start catching your prey.
- Important! A deterioration in the bite usually occurs when the water drops; activation or deactivation can also be affected by a change in weather.
If the fish behaves quite passively in the reservoir, then the moment of biting will not be so clearly noticeable, however, you will understand everything. Is it necessary to hook at this moment? Of course yes! The main thing here is not to hesitate and act tactfully, without scaring the fish.
- Interesting! When fishing by trolling, fish are able to hook on their own, but for control it is better to hook the trophy.
In order to fish professionally and never experience fish jumping off the hook, it is important to know how to properly hook fish on a spinning rod.
