Drop Shot Essentials

[crankitup]

Hey Guy's. I am very upset. I was fishing last night about 12:00PM and decided to try out the drop shot. I was fishing from a dock but concentrated on my experiment next to the bank. Nex tthing I new the end of my pole took of in the water and before I could react it was over. I missed the hook set. I fished some more and was very sucessful in getting bites. I was very unsuccessful in getting hook set. In the hour time I lost another one when it jumped out of the water, about 7-8 more bites, but managed to land one. I got to thinking that maybe my hook size and the way I was attaching the bait was not correct. I used a drop shot r-bend hook and made my 5" worm weedless. Any pointers on hooking thee bastards?