After a horrible start to the winter season I have finally began to hook a few fish. Unfortunatly I am experiencing extreme frustration because I cannot seem to keep the hook into these fish. I am fishing spoons with a 2/0 siwash hook and the fish I am hooking are hitting the spoon just as it completes its swing into the soft water near shore. I am setting the hook as hard as I can, yet the fish are spitting the hook as they explode on the surface immediatly after the hookset. My hooks are sharpened regularly and I am ready for the strike, yet I am still missing these fish!! Any suggetions?..... Should I be waiting til the fish turns before setting the hook?... Or am I just suffering through a bad luck streak? Anyone else have this problem? Any advice will be appreciated, as my confidence level has gone way down.
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Please practice C & R on wild steelhead!