Losing a lot of hooks and sinkers...help?

[MuskieBait]

It's normal in some places. There are some rivers I fish where if I don't lose a dozen of hooks and sinkers, I'm having a really great day.

You can try using different styles of sinkers. For rocky areas, sometimes slinky style sinkers or pencil lead can help. For weedy areas, there really is no getting around it except casting to the weed line, pockets or dips and turns. For woody areas, again it's hard to get around it except to cast to the side of it.

If you are fishing in an area and you notice there are snags in certain spots, or patches of areas where you tend to snag up more, just avoid casting into that area. There's really nothing else you can really do aside from using a float rig.

But sometimes, fish hold in those snaggy structures...and you just gotta gamble and sacrifice a few hooks and sinkers to find the fish...it's all part of the game.