The best hook for Texas/Wacky Rig Senko

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Originally Posted by thomaskgrosvenor

I have been using a 2/0 EWG offset shank worm hook for wacky rigging and texas rigging either 4 or 5 inch senkos. It is effective and my question is not in regard to plain effectiveness. My concern lies with hooking smaller large mouth and small mouth bass. Being as one can’t control the size of the Bass that hits their lure, I am wondering if there is a better hook to use that will accommodate various sized Bass. The bigger ones I catch, I have hooked correctly through the mouth. But on occasion, with the smaller ones biting the hook with the extra wide gap, sometimes the hook point will go up through what seems to be the forehead or through the eye or around the eye through the eye socket. I have just recently started removing the barbs from the hooks, which makes removal much easier, particularly with the near eye penetrations. But still, I’d like to hear what conscientious bass anglers have to say about this. I would prefer to use an effective hook that minimizes the aforementioned types of hooksets on the smaller bass but is still effective for the bigger ones.
Also any comments on hook-setting would be welcomed as well. I think my hook setting is pretty good in that I never setting the hook in the gut area of the fish I am catching. But again, I would like to avoid hooking the smaller ones around the eye socket. Thanks.

I have always had problems setting hook using a size 2 with a senko, I only use that size for a narrower finesse worm when Texas rigging. Generally for 5" senkos Texas riig I use a 3 or even a 4 EWG offset. With a 2 I feel like not enough gap between the hook and worm because often I would go to set a hook when I waited beyond strike to make sure it was fully taken by the fish and would end up with a hook flying out of water back at me because rather than set it ripped cleanly out of the mouth. Is my hook set off? Do others use 3-4 size hooks on 5" senkos? I have had issue of deep hooksets on smaller fish but nothing I couldn't carefully remove.