This is a fresh water forum but there is a common solution: use sharper and sometimes smaller hooks.
The small fine gold hooks in say size 10 work a lot better for spot and small kingfish than
most but not all commercial rigs.
So given this is a freshwater forum (
) when, for example, I am fishing freshwater for alewife ( when it was legal) I'd use a modified sabiki rig... Fewer hooks and sometimes the feathers off...just out of convenience rather than tying my own...those hooks work great on spot
Last piece of advice is to just crank those suckers in faster, you're not plying a weakfish after all
