I have to admit, mine's pretty quick. The only time I let them "chew on it" is if I've got bit a few times and come up empty on the hookset or had half-worms when I reeled in. In all honesty, I haven't had a fish swallow a hook on me in 4 or 5 years.

You never can be to fast on your hook set, it's going to be a big time learning curve, but when you master it you will be on fire. Another thing to learn when you are taking this new step is to learn how to set the hook with more power, a lot of people set the hook by swinging the rod straight up at 12 o'clock, by doing this you are losing pressure and it is not penetrating the hook all the way thru 60 percent of the time, when you feel a bite start to try to swing the rod to the side not straight up , you will have a lot more power, better hook set's, you can practice this with a old battery, tie your line on the handle of a old battery, and jerk, and you will learn that if you jerk the rod straight up the battery will barley move and you will probley brake your line , now try it by jerking to the side, the battery will fly off the ground , this is because you have more power and pressure, I learned all of this stuff when I started to fish flw , I was watching a lot of people and I mean when some of them would set the hook the fish would fly out of the water , lol

sorry I used the wrong clock time. I meant 1 or 2. 3 is too far sideways. But Like I said if it works, use it.
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