Off the top of my head, I've hooked four fish that way.

The first was probably fifteen years ago on a very small stream, using a corky. I saw the fish, casted, drifted to the fish, which moved up a good foot to grab the corky.

Set the hook, fought the fish, landed it, and found it hooked right where yours is.

It was somewhat slow, swirly water, so my guess is that the corky slid up the line and hooked up on the bottom of the chin when I set it.

The other three times were hooked on...drifted pink worms. If I put the hook in the head of the worm, I get short strikes. If I put it 2/3 of the way down, I get more hookups, but occasionally hook a fish in the chin. If I use two hooks I don't like the drift of the worm anymore....so I go with one hook 2/3 of the way back.

Fish on...

Todd.

BTW, nice fish, Rich!
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