I'm glad you enjoyed the article and took it the right way :)

You know, I have not tried this backwards fat ika thing but I do hear that it is working.

Tell me this, what hook exactly are you using? I found that with 7" senkos, the 5/0 superline EWG was making me miss a lot of fish because the plastic would kinda ball up on the hook. I switched to a standard 5/0 round bend offset shank gammie worm hook (bronze) and started to do a lot better on hooksets. That hook will slice right through the bait on the hookset. It means one bait per fish, but it also means you catch the fish.

That is another topic I want to talk about on the main page. Fishing "suicidally" .. meaning fishing in ways where you know your bait will be destroyed by one fish or in ways where you know you are going to lose a lot of lures. I remember the first time I fished with John Lake. The guy goes through baits like you wouldn't believe whether it's on fish or because his bait gets loose on the hook after a snag. By keeping a brand new good bait on there at all times, his odds go up considerably during the day. Sometimes fishing like that is the way to go.

The other thing would be the rod and the line. I would use at least 16lb test and a flipping stick for that kind of fishing. If you want hookset pointers, just watch the bassmasters. Those guys know how to set the hook. You want to slam them and crank them on big texas rig plastics.