I hear you Ken, always go with what feels right for you.

Let me tell you about a trailer rigging that has made a heavy,
all-chartreuse SW spinnerbait with size 3 & 5 willowleaf blades a bait that
I'm landing 90% give or take of the smallies that even miss it bigtime.

Take your favorite regular trailer & use heavy-duty surgical tubing to cover
the eye. Then insert the bait's hook through the tubing & trailer eye.
This results in a rather rigid & adjustable connection between the two
hooks. The trailer should be adjusted so that it rides directly behind the
first hook, with the hook point below the skirt. One or two more hooks are
added inline behind the first, always alternating point direction up & down.

The finishing touch is a #2 treble added to the final trailer hook in the
same manner. I'm starting to believe that using all red hooks is drawing
extra strikes too.

This bait is heavy, no less than 3/4 oz, and is made exclusively to be
burned at rocket speed, just under the surface. Needless to say Ken, it's
not a lure to be thrown in any kind of cover. I'd never throw a
treble-hooked spinner in the stuff that you are; You're begging to get
snagged even with the treble as the main hook IMHO.

The clearer the water the better, and a very light chop is ideal, long casts
are prefferred. Burn it over cover, just under the surface, and you'll love
it when those bronzebacks rise up from the depths & crash the lure. It's
awesome.


Warren

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"Ken Blevins" wrote in message
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Hi Warren
I did in fact try that, but found that when working the bait through
downed trees and heavy log cover I got snagged a lot. I tried to
position the hook so that the barbs were all kinda pointing up but that
didn't help much.Tucking the treble hook in closer to the body of the lure
seemed to work better
Ken Blevins
"go-bassn" wrote in message
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Ken- why not just add the treble to your existing hook as a trailer?

Warren

"Ken Blevins" wrote in message
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Bob
Last fall I lost a lot of fish on spinnerbaits ,so as an experiment I
cut
the hook off of two of my most productive colors, heated the shank and
installed a red treble hook ..My catch rate didn't improve [ because
of
the red hooks ] but my boating the fish went up slightly.
I hope to have a better idea of how well this works come spring
Ken Blevins
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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http://image.basspro.com/images/imag...000/81069a.jpg

Anybody using this thing? I am torn. I have been switching my rear
hook
on
crank baits to a one size up Excalibur rotating hook, but this thing
looks
interesting. If set up propery it should ride large point up for more
boney
plate hook ups in the roof of the mouth. Thats the type of hook up I
get
most of the time fishing stick worms wacky style, and I know how few
fish
I
lose that way, but you don't go for that kind of hammer blow hook set
with
a
crank bait. I have started training myself to set the hook by
sweeping
the
rod to one side while continuing to reel instead of a snap set, and it
is
working, but this hook looks like it might lend itself to harrder
hookset.

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