Male Speaker: I'm trying to strike and I usually do with my line hand, pulling it straight back. If I feel resistance right away, if I felt a strike right now and I pull back and I felt the fish then my hand would separate and move this way. I set the hook.
My rod tip is pointed right at the flag, so I'm using fairly heavy tippet on here. I don't have to worry a bit too much about it, breaking off on a strike very, very light tipped material, I would be retrieving this way, with the line at an angel off the tip. And then when I struck, then the rod tip has a lot of bend to it and they have to now protect that small tippet.
This is not a light tippet, I'll point it as directly at it as I can and then when a strike occurs, I'll pull up my line hand. A nice hand twist retrieve when I get a hit. I'll feel it or even it just feels kind of sluggish sometime like it's kind of dragging over something or just a little bit of drag on it, pull like this. And if I pull and it is a fish, then it'll come apart instead like that.
Now, I'm always, if fish wasn't conscious and I'm always watching the tip of my rod and the line that's in the air between the tip and the water and I do that because if I can see something happen out there, before I feel it up here, I have that much time advantage in setting the hook. That had been sound like a lot but those things start making a difference when you have fish that are hitting very lightly and they just by the time they feel something on that and then it moves the rod tip, they spit the hook and are gone.
So if you can detect something before they spit the hook, you'll obviously get more fish, like that.
Female Speaker: Hit those in the right spot and I'm not.
Male Speaker: Oh, these guys have got some spirit. Strong fish! Try to remember to raise my fins and the fish goes underneath, and keep entangling me up. Well fed fat fish, little tail slap at the end, just to show me who is the boss.
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