Stinger Teble Hook ???

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.

Warren

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

http://www.warrenwolk.com Http://www.tri-statebassmasters.com 2004 NJ B.A.S.S. Federation State Champions

I seldom rig that way, because I am usually trying to toss my spinnerbaits back into tangles and laydowns wherever I can find them. But for open water points or fishing bass in the jumps, it would probably be a good idea for me to keep a series of hooks like that on the deck, pre-made, so I just have to slip the front hook onto the bait.

Another thing you can do to increase hookups, with either a single spinnerbait hook or one rigged with a trailer, is to clip a small blade attachment onto it like you might a plastic trailer. Put a plastic keeper tab on first and then behind the hook to keep it in place. That spinning blade right behind the hook, with a larger blade above it, seems to make the fish zero in on the business end of the lure.

Joe _________________ "go-bassn" <dropshotordie@comcast.net> wrote in message news:I-CdnZH4xapeHkLcRVn-ig@comcast.com... 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

http://www.warrenwolk.com Http://www.tri-statebassmasters.com 2004 NJ B.A.S.S. Federation State Champions

Warren