All good tips that were mentioned. Experience being the best. When do get one hooked, need to remember what you did so can repeat. Sensitivity of rod and line important. With Braid, no stretch and sensitive rod, you can feel the slight tug. Everyone deals with fishing a little differently to suit their experiences. When I am using a rubber worm without weight, I will watch the line at the water's edge. When I see it twitch, I know someone is interested, will lower the rod tip pulling in any loose line (creates a second of wait) and then haul back hard to set hook. Here is where need a rod that is not too limber or will have trouble setting the hook.
When missing some fish because not sure if they are spitting out the worm after taking it in, after the cast I will have the rod tip high and my free hand holding the line. When feel the slight tug will quickly drop the tip, real the slack and haul back. In the long run it is trying to repeat what worked when solidly hooked the fish.
People have fished for years without braid and have not had any trouble catching fish.
Now the different lines have their speciality that they're good at, braid excels at trolling but that's it!, for ultralight fishing and sensitivity you want to use a hybrid copolymer line; then use a fluorocarbon line for large fish in clear water, this line sinks faster than braid or mono making it idea for deep diving lures and baits. Copolymer line, also known as hybrid line is a braided line that has been fused and comes out looking like a ribbon instead of a round line, this is a floating line, so it's good for floating lures and baits, it's also the thinnest of the different lines, this is the idea line for ultralight fishing with ultralight reels and rods. Mono is cheaper to buy and it's universally a pretty good line, but the larger diameter per test pound makes for shorter casts, and it has memory issues, the longer it's on your spool the more it will curl up and the shorter your casts will become.
Now braided line you have to be careful with because if your fishing where there is a lot of rocks or submerged trees etc braided line can fail pretty quickly, so some people use a mono leader to prevent that.
If you go with braided consider using SpiderWire, it has a special coating on the line that helps it to cast further than other braids. If you are considering the hybrid braided line then go with Berkely Fireline. Be careful when buying braided line, cheap braided line can literally saw through your first eyelet at the end of your rod! The most difficult line for fish to see is the hybrid and the fluorocarbon. So chose the line for the type of fishing you're doing.
Before you run out and buy a new fishing rod and reel to get some sensitivity back, I would try replacing the line first and see what happens, that will be cheaper to do than a new rod! I think you'll find that a new line will do wonders...unless your using some 40 year old bargain basement rod!!
I use braid and circle hooks setting the hook not required, just start reeling. Infact you have to learn not to set the hook
Have fun be safe
Hey buddy I was just down there in Davenport FL, an what I noticed is that the bite is very soft it’s like a little tap. That’s when I fished a ribbon tail worm 🪱 but too water was something different . Try a ribbon tail worm with a 1/16 or 1/8 oz bullet weight an pitch it around the weeds or lily pads , hopefully this will help you out an get a hook up take care buddy!
I use Yellow braided line for worm/plastics fishing. I can see the "tic" when the fish bites.
Nice 👍 good job , FishIsLife…
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