How Fast Should One Set The Hook?

When you are fishing for wild brook trout on mountain streams you need to set the hook on the strike as quickly as possible with both drys and nymphs. Large brown trout can be very deliberate when they come up to take your dry Hopper on a Spring Creek so don’t take it away from him. Cutthroat Trout on high meadow streams often require a slow hook setting action on drys or you take it away from him. Smallmouth Bass taking a popper in a fast current need a fast strike. However, at dusk in the tail of a pool when you see the wake of that smallmouth coming to take your popper you need to delay your strike or you’ll take it away from him.