Missed Hits On Horny Toad ???

Group: rec.outdoors.fishing.bass Date: Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 11:41am (CDT-2)
From: (Bob*La*Londe)
I was fishing after sunset Saturday evening, and I got seven or eight
hits on a Zoom Horny Toad. They were pretty tentative hits. Just a
little splish at the bait. I tried two different things. The first
couple I gave it slack and let the bait fall, and the last three or four
I just kept retrieving at the same speed. Neither approach produced any
fish.
What would you have done? Switch to a popper with lots of trebles hoping
they would hook up on the outside on the initial strike? Maybe slip a
big treble over the hook on the toad? Go to a buzz bait?
P.S. Out topwater bite hasn't really turned on yet down here.
Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com
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Bob, its a bit tricky, but try putting a stinger hook out each leg of
the toad....you have to thread 'em through the body...kinda turn it
inside out, then tie the hooks on, and shove the extra line inside the
"legs" so the hooks are just barely pertruding from the legs. Little
John showed me this trick a few years ago....works great (50% more hook
sets).

JK