carolina rig techniques

[LPfishnTIM]

I never fish a carolina rig, I mostly do drop shot, I feel drop shot gives you a better hook set and keeps your bait where you want it, but sunday I was fishing and was using a carolina rig with a bead, weight, bead and swivel, then a flouro leader and #4 treble w/ live swimpz, I missed a lot of fish trying to figure out whats the best technique I tried keeping my line as tight as possible but when I felt the bite I couldn't ever get the hook set. any help with a better set up or technique would be appreciated, oh and I never fished with live bait til this weekend, I use to fishing for bass with a texas rigged plastic worm, or when I do fish for trout its usually with a jighead and saltwater assassins.

[meaux fishing]

you may have been trying to set the hook too fast...

[Dink]

Trout hit It to kill it, then come back to eat it......gotta wait for the next hit

[LPfishnTIM]

Originally Posted by Dink

Trout hit It to kill it, then come back to eat it......gotta wait for the next hit

thats probably it,

[fishinpox]

Treble hook takes practice , try a khale hook

[fishinpox]

N if your fishin the hwy 11 use a drop shot , way less work re- rigging when u hang up on all the crap on the bottom, or use a sliding cork

[eman]

Originally Posted by fishinpox

N if your fishin the hwy 11 use a drop shot , way less work re- rigging when u hang up on all the crap on the bottom, or use a sliding cork

Sliding cork makes it about as easy as it can get.