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Location: NW WI | Anybody ever take their single treble hook spoons, swap out the treble for a single EWG 8-12/0 style hook and texas rig something like 8" Kalins on it? Kinda like a more snagless timberdoodle idea. Just wondering if there's a point at which the hook and trailer combo will mute the action too much? |
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Location: West Central WI | I have a Bucher slopmaster/weedless spoon with single hook that's fixed to the spoon rather than split-ring attached. I've attached a long rubber tail to the hook (can't remember the name) and that thing snakes back and forth like a dream through the weeds. If anything, the appearance was enhanced. You have nothing to lose to experiment with what you're thinking about. |
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Location: Lower Peninsula | If I tried something like that my concerns would be the hook up ratio and how the spoon performs on the flutter with a big tail like that. You would have use a heavy spoon too because I think a thinner one would have it’s action distorted by the force of the twister tail.
The biggest thing is how it performs when you let it flutter/sink. Letting is fall through open spots between weeds then popping it back up could be deadly. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Johnson's Silver Minnow, Rapala Spoon, and Weedless Troll Devle all hook and hold fish just fine! |
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Location: NW WI | Got an elvis slopmaster, "frogiest" of any spoon I've thrown and for that reason its great. In personal experience it doesn't get hit much and when it does they're "tasting" nips of the skirt from the rear. Pretty much why my idea was spawned. And Rikki that's exactly where my question lays lol, most likely not gunna get too much pause time but I hear ya. Kinda figuring it's use will be in filth that rides the fine line in-between burning single hook spinner baits and hollow frog only. That being said, hook up ratio isn't going to be great regardless, just looking to play with an idea mostly. |
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| Johnson Siver Spoon with a twister tale works great for me in the spring. |
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Location: oswego, il | Put a chatter blade on the front of it. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Can't truly attest for musky, but I can tell you that my grandfather would literally rake the lake of 8 to 12 lb northern pike with a Johnson Spoon and a pork rind trailer or a plain Daredevil (that did have treble though).
The pork rind comes in a little jar w/solution if you have never seen it. |
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Location: E. Tenn | mm3 - 8/21/2022 10:13 PM
Can't truly attest for musky, but I can tell you that my grandfather would literally rake the lake of 8 to 12 lb northern pike with a Johnson Spoon and a pork rind trailer or a plain Daredevil (that did have treble though).
The pork rind comes in a little jar w/solution if you have never seen it.
A long departed uncle, and a very good friend of his had similar results with that combo. Unfortunately, the pork rinds no longer "come in a little jar w/solution", that solution being a strong brine.. My experience and varied success were with bass jigs.
https://www.onthewater.com/after-93-years-uncle-josh-to-stop-produci...
Alas the cost of 'progress".. |
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Location: North Central IL USA | It's back!!! A bit pricy, though. https://www.farmandfleet.com/products/029661-uncle-josh-spot-pork-fr... |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I love real pork rind products, I have bottles of both Muskie Strip and Bass strip in different colors. Have not used them in a long time but recently I got a couple of Rapala spoons on E-bay. Some where in all my stuff I have a bottle of Uncle Josh Ice Flicks they are little round pieces of pork rind for ice fishing I don't think they make them any more. |
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Location: NW WI | ToddM - 8/21/2022 2:25 PM
Put a chatter blade on the front of it.
I did the first time you told me Tod haha, different action and obviously vibration, plus that combo generates 2 different colors and frequencies of flash! Only real trade off is its not as weedless. |
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Anbody ever try-Spoon question