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| Been reading reviews on some forums and am hearing a lot of people say they clip the hook off the top of these lures to increase hook ups. What's your opinion, keep the top hook or clip the top hook? |
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Location: MN | I've actually caught fish on that hook, but would consider cutting it if it was causing poor hook ups. Can someone verify that it is a negative to keep it, or just theory/opinion? |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | I have not thrown much rubber in my fishing, however I have caught a couple with rubber and lost a few as well. I have heard both sides of the "keep it, clip it" argument. But I have been looking at some of the newer Dawgs that come out, and now they're building them without the top hook to begin with. So if the company that builds the bait doesn't think the top hook is important enough to keep, then why should we?
.... Plus the more I like the look of a bait, the more I throw it, thus the more confident I become with it. I prefer without a top hook |
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| It's not to say that you can't catch one with the top hook. It's just we'd all prefer the fish to get pinned up on the large treble hooks on split rings than a single hook that's half buried in plastic. Once that top hook connects you can no longer move the bait in the fishes mouth to burry the trebles. A big fish can open her mouth and shake her head and have all kinds of leverage to pop out that single hook. It's just asking for heartbreak in my opinion. |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | I've got some of mine cut off and a few still with it. Caught and lost fish on both. Like mentioned don't have as much faith in the single hook I would mutch rather see the treble in the corner of its mouth. |
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| I agree with the theory proposed by musky-skunk. However, why not put a split ringed treble on the top?
If you search youtube for video of muskies/pike feeding in fish tanks, darn near every one of them shows them striking prey from the top down, just behind the gills. The videos are quite compelling evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATY3l2y8wi0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4dF4qN89II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR57Dvz7bFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_5EDZRn_0
So, in my opinion all lures should have a top hook--and it should be a treble.
Brian
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Location: In a shack in the woods | I've been playing around with an old dawg trying to mount the 2 trebles on top. I figure I can pop it out the weeds if this summer ever grows any. It should flutter down into the weed pockets and there's no bottom hooks to snag them |
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