hook up ratio with jigs, whats your thoughts

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OK, I started a post about this new jig design that suposedly is more resistent to hang ups, but it's main claim is that it much more consistent in hooking the fish that bite it. Several of the folks that responded have stated that they could not imagine a better hook up ratio with jigs than what they already get. So. my question is, what is your hook up ratio with bass that bite your jigs and then, do you really know? See, I'm the first to admit that I'm just not sure. I have been fishing with bass jigs for several years now. I didn't use jigs during the first 20 years of bass fishing because no one ever taught me how to use them effectivly and every time i tried them, i got discouraged and went back to T riged plastics. I finally got some good info on jigs a few years back and got a chance to use them at a good lake for practice. So anyway, I have actually gotten pretty darn good with using jigs now and it's one of my top go to lures now. Back to my question, I catch a lot of bass on jigs, but i also set the hook on nothing a lot of times. As many of you know, Tony and I fish together quite often. I know for a fact that the same thing happens to Tony, because i have seen him set the hook on nothing a lot of times also. Sometimes we are positive that a fish of some sort had the bait. When we set the hook on nothing, but were sure it was a fish, we say that it must have been a bluegill or very small bass that grabbed just the claws of our trailer and just didn't have the hook in it's mouth. Many other times, i will set the hook on nothing, because i felt someting different. It might have been a tick or a bump that could be a bass or could be a rock. Now for the actual question. How do we know that most of these time were not actually full sized bass that had the bait in it's mouth only to have us jerk it out of thier mouth without the hook grabbing. You see, every time that I'm positive a bass has my jig, I hook it, but why was i positive? It's because I hooked the bass that i set the hook on. Thats an excelent hook up ratio, every time I'm absolutly positive it was a bass, I hook it because thats how I am positive. Batting 100% there. Now, If I add in all the times that I set the hook on nothing and chalked them up to gills or just a weird bump that might have been a fish, then my ratio might go down to less than 50%, if those were actually bass and not the other things that i convince myself they were.