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Location: Iowa | Recently we got a fish on a 9" Wolfcreek Shad swimbait rigged externally like they're supposed to. However when the fish came to the surface head shaking the bait became detached from the cork screw eye and we lost the swimbait. Granted the 9" is only $9-$10 depending on whether you get the single or 2 pack. Its a whole different game using the 13" with them being $29 to replace. Should i be sticking a toothpick or short piece of wire perpendicular to the cork screw to secure it, should I be super gluing the head to the wire or does someone else have a better option to keep from loosing the swimbait from the rig? |
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| I don't know if it would work for your specific bait but try looking up our St.Clair Jigs. They run 1 to 4 oz and feature an 8/0 main hook and two 4/0 treble stingers. Might work. |
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Location: mercer wi | That's one of the reasons I haven't tried 1. I can melt a dawg but can't melt a bait at bottom of lake |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | Never used one but you could run some single strand lengthwise through the body. Start near the head and exit by last treble hook. Tie it onto the harness on both ends. Just an idea. Not sure if it would just rip through the bait on a hookset though. |
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| I have fished this style of setup for years here in Europe and caught huge amounts of fish on it and several 40"+ and never had a bait fly of the "cork screw", the cork screw i use i roughly 2 inches long, also use the same screw system on a 15" swimbait i make, and never loss one of those ass well. I never used glue or toothpicks or anything to secure it.
Do you have a picture of the rig the wolfcreek swimbait comes with ? |
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Posts: 1100
| Found a picture of the rig at TRO, looks a lot like the once i use, screw might be a bit shorter, but not much.
Sounds like you just was extremely unlucky. |
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Location: Montreal, Que. Canada | Matt adding a touch of gell super glue at the base of the screw in weight should do the trick ;-). |
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Rigging Externally Rigged Swimbaits