Ned button problems

[Dutch]

I finally broke down and bought some of the Ned heads with itty bitty hooks.  On my home made stuff I use a 3/0 so this was quite a change.

Last night my s-I-l and I went to Stockton to night fish for white bass.  We got there before dark and decided to do some bass fishing before the white bite got going.  He was using a swing jig with a paca craw and I put on the Ned.  I used both my home made baits and the TRD with the new small hooks.  I will have to say that I got a lot more bites with the small jig than with my larger hook but I kept losing the fish on the way back to the boat.  I got my s-I-l to switch to the Ned so be able to compare.  He had the same trouble.

So my question is:  How do you keep the fish from coming unbuttoned with the Ned or is this an inherent item?

[Smalls21]

cross their eyes when you set the hook

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1 hour ago, Smalls21 said:

cross their eyes when you set the hook

And wear safety eye protection in case it's a dink and he lets go at full tension.  Speaking from experience.  Ned doesn't work anyway.

[ewlech]

I have caught hundreds of fish on the Ned and have been throwing it for 3 years or so now.  Every year about this time they seem to bite short on the Ned and this lasts for a few weeks.  Most of the time I connect with the fish and keep them buttoned up.  I use Dave's (Table Rock Forum) Ozark finesse jig heads with a Z-Man Zinker cut in half (in my experience, much better than a TRD)  I use some gel super glue and glue it to the head.  I also do not have a problem with them swallowing the hook.  

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I use Dave's jigs too. 

[Dutch]

I'm using Dave's jig heads but I bought some of all colors of TRDs so I'll be using them for a while till I find out the best colors.

 

[ewlech]

Is there any colors other than PB&J? 

[Smalls21]

1 hour ago, ewlech said:

Is there any colors other than PB&J? 

DIRT

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, ewlech said:

Is there any colors other than PB&J? 

Not that I'm aware of. 

[Quillback]

Sometimes when the male bass are on the beds they'll just pick it up and move it away, gets hard to hook them when they do that.