Snelling your hooks

​Snelling your hooks for Texas-rigging will increase your hooks-ups. Although the Palomar is the most popular knot when it comes to flipping or pitching Texas-rigs, there are two advantages to tying a snell. First, the snell is tied below the hook loop, which allows the bullet weight to hit the hook loop instead of rubbing against the knot. Second, when the line is pulled, the shank is pulled upwards, which results in a better hookset by hooking the fish in the top of the mouth.