Has anyone had any experience with this? I've always just used a regular old worm hook but I was looking at some of the winning patterns from Smith mountain and saw that some of the guys were throwing 1 or 2 drop shot hooks with stick worms wacky rigged for sight fishing. What's the ideal hook for wacky rigging stick baits? Is that a sight fishing only technique with that hook or can I throw that same rig in 10 foot of water and expect good results and not many lost fish?

I like the Gammi extra wide gap finesse hook anytime an exposed point will work.  It is a really good drop shot hook so you get double duty from the same hook.

Drop shot hooks work very well for me. That is all I use for a wacky rig now.

I've been wacky rigging for a very long time and find that most of the time, bass will take your offering deep. Since I'd strictly a CPR fisherman, this is unacceptable. So, I use a Gamakatsu In-Line, Oct Circle hook, size 1/0 to wacky rig everything. By just reeling when a strike is detected, 90%+ will be lip hooked vs. gut hooked. Makes a significant difference to me.

like flippen and pitchen i use gammakatsu (sp?) 4/0 wide gap finesse hooks

I've been wacky rigging for a very long time and find that most of the time, bass will take your offering deep. Since I'd strictly a CPR fisherman, this is unacceptable. So, I use a Gamakatsu In-Line, Oct Circle hook, size 1/0 to wacky rig everything. By just reeling when a strike is detected, 90%+ will be lip hooked vs. gut hooked. Makes a significant difference to me.

I made a change to these for the first time this year.  I have been happy with having almost everything lip hooked.  I still have the reflex to set the hook and have lost a couple of fish from that already though . . . hopefully I'll learn.

I like the Owner Mosquito 2/0 Hooks personally

http://www.***.com/Owner_Mosquito_Hooks/descpage-OMOS.html

owner wacky hooks are the best for wacky style.. one advantage is the way it is shaped. take a look at it and you will see the difference between the owner wacky and the gama finesse tell me what you see and yes the wacky rig can be used in 10ft of water or any depth! i fish toledo bend mostly (where the wacky worm started) and the wacky worm is a prob one of the deadliest tools there is! just remember one thing with the wacky worm... patience

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owner wacky hooks are the best for wacky style.. one advantage is the way it is shaped. take a look at it and you will see the difference between the owner wacky and the gama finesse tell me what you see and yes the wacky rig can be used in 10ft of water or any depth! i fish toledo bend mostly (where the wacky worm started) and the wacky worm is a prob one of the deadliest tools there is! just remember one thing with the wacky worm... patience

You know it is a funny thing about these "new" techniques, they seem to have started when someone gave them a catchy name. I can remember back in the sixties when they were hooking the Creme crawler like that and just saying they were side hooked. I'll never forget the first time someone showed it to me, I thought it was dumb until I watched the action in the water.

I use nothing but the Gamakatsu Drop shot hooks in 1/0 for everything and I really like them.  No gut hooking and nice hooksets each time.

owner wacky hooks are the best for wacky style.. one advantage is the way it is shaped. take a look at it and you will see the difference between the owner wacky and the gama finesse tell me what you see and yes the wacky rig can be used in 10ft of water or any depth! i fish toledo bend mostly (where the wacky worm started) and the wacky worm is a prob one of the deadliest tools there is! just remember one thing with the wacky worm... patience

You know it is a funny thing about these "new" techniques, they seem to have started when someone gave them a catchy name. I can remember back in the sixties when they were hooking the Creme crawler like that and just saying they were side hooked. I'll never forget the first time someone showed it to me, I thought it was dumb until I watched the action in the water.

exactly right the original "wacky worm" was a grape creme worm on a gold crappie hook

You know it is a funny thing about these "new" techniques, they seem to have started when someone gave them a catchy name. I can remember back in the sixties when they were hooking the Creme crawler like that and just saying they were side hooked. I'll never forget the first time someone showed it to me, I thought it was dumb until I watched the action in the water.

Everybody 's talkin ' 'bout the new sound, funny but it 's still rock n 'roll to me. 

Now back into the discussion 'bout them hooks, my favorite: Owner Mutu Light, size 1/0 for 3 inch stickbaits, 2/0 for 4 inchers and 3/0 for 5+ inchers, only problem with that hook is .... don 't use it for cover, it hangs up in an eyeblink ! 

http://www.***.com/Owner_Wacky_Hook/descpage-OWNWHH.html

Owner size 1 works great.

I like the Owner Mosquito 2/0 Hooks personally

http://www.***.com/Owner_Mosquito_Hooks/descpage-OMOS.html

GOOD STUFF 

ive used circle hooks for wacky rigs with the 4" senko

i hate gut hooking fish too