Fish hooks
I put the Owner hooks in all my poppers mostly in 3/0 and they are great…..they make a mess of the fish but they don’t let go. I was going to run singles like the decoys in my baby runboh’s Stickbaits on a Stickface!!! NICE!!!! I’m guessing the big boys are what you want then.
I know people who ran singles off his I believe he got one blue as well. The last charter we took out was full of first timers. They might still be talking about the Blues we brought back.
When we trolled out in times past and spent less , we came back with fewer fish and more disappointing reports. One of our partners read about these mustad fish hooks in the Local deep sea magz, and suggested we test it out. WOW ! We came into a run that almost kicked our butts . It would have been a damn shame if these big spenders on our charter would have come back defeated. Instead, they fought some big ass fish and came home with the most amazing tales of legendary Fishing battles.
Mustad Big Game Hooks were the key to their success and a gaurantee for these guys to book future Charters with us.
Later on:
We threw all sorts of plugs in an attempt to catch a blue or two but they were only interested in our live eels. Out of frustration and a desperate need to land one of those toothy adversaries, I attached a 9″ Slug-Go to the end of my line. After a few minutes of tossing the Slug-Go into the surf, WHAM!, a fish hit Unfortunately, I lost the fish after it had tested my drag washers. I retrieved my lure, expecting it to be chewed up by one of those blues but it was intact, I had hooked into a nice bass!
That fish prompted me to stick with the Slug-Go and forsake my usual live eels for the rest of the night. I was rewarded with a healthy bass in the thirty pound range and several smaller ones as well. I had numerous hits that I didn’t connect on which had me perplexed. I sought advice from local experts on what I could do to improve my hook up ratio. They advised me on a better way to rig my Slug-Gos which I am passing on to you as well as how to fish them. Of course you will be starting with a 9″ Slug-Go . Next you will need an 8/0 O’Shaughnessy hook from Mustad. It has a long shank which distributes it’s weight very similarly to the 8/0 offset hook which comes packaged with the lure. Weight distribution is an important factor when it comes to the action of these lures. If the weight is too far forward, as it would be with shorter shanked hooks, the lure will nose dive when it is on the fall. Seeing as just about all of the hits come as the lure is falling during the retrieve, this is extremely important. The O’Shaughnessy hook allows you to fish with more of the hook exposed which will increase your hookup ratio