I've recently begun to see great variance in hook-setting styles, e.g. snap set, sweep set, reel set, and standard powerhook setting. Keep in mind that today's hooks are incredibly sharp, you usually don't have to yank the moon from the sky to set the hook.

What sets do you you use for which baits; I tend to use:

• Sweep set-slowest, reeling slack/loading rod, then sweeping sideways or lightly towards an 11 o'clock position

For crankbaits...or anything with trebles.  Including lipless crank (a standard hookset can rip them out of the mouth)

Top water

Soft plastics

• Reel set-Load rod with reel, (not so much that they can feel you) then set hook (not lightly, not powerfully, find a happy medium)

when using smaller, wire hooks, e.g. wacky rigs

football jigs/any jig not fished in heavy cover-Hard hooksets can pull the lure, causing that lead head to bust open a bass' mouth and swim away. This also compresses  the weeguard before the set. This must be done quickly. Use a high speed reel.

soft plastics- Quality Wide gap/EWG hooks and wire hooks

Finesse lures (wacky rigs, shaky heads etc.)

Anything with circle hooks

• Snap set- A regular hookset, but without having reeled in all the slack.  It can pop a lure while in a bass' mouth instead of just yanking it out

Also used for jigs.

Good for T-rigged soft plastics when bottom bouncing; especially with heavier hooks

• Soft standard Hookset-'Nuff said

T rigged soft plastics-wire hooks

O.K. for jigs with small hooks

Tex-posed Soft Plastics

• Hard-'Nuff Said

Flipping and pitching

when using massive hooks

Swim jigs

Spinnerbaits

When a lot of line is between you and the bait/heavy cover

Thick soft plastics with large buried/weedless hooks

Topwater plastics like frog and eeliminators

weedless hollow frogs

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Thanks! Good info.

Good stuff.

Pretty good write up.