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| I currantly use a Herbie type rig,but somewhere someone used a rig that they cut a hole in the suckers lip and fished the leader through it.Does that sound familiar to anyone? |
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Location: Gurnee, Illinois | I read a post that Howie Meyer made refering to this rig, and that Cal Johnson from Skyview Lodge was using this. It may be something that Cal developed, but you may want to contact howie in the Presque Isle, WI area.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I used a rig like that years ago for casting; basically a quick strike rig that allows the bait to be retrieved like a glider. |
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Location: Presque Isle Wisconsin | The quick strike rig that we are using now was developed last year by Cal Johnson from Presque Isle.It consists of a 30" length of #100 test flourocarbon with a barrel swivel at one end and a 3/0 to 50 treble hook tied to opposite ends.A small hole is made in the side of the suckers lip section and the barrel swivel is passed through it and attached to the snap swivel on your line. The hook is attached lightly through the suckers skin near the dorsal fin.
When the hook is set virtually all the power is transferred directly to the hook.In the test phase last fall We went 22 for 22 from oct 15 to nov20.All of these hooksets were from deepwater and in my boat the hooksets were done by clients with limited experience using quick strike rigs.It is simpler to rig the suckers this way,the suckers last longer and are more lively in the water as the rigs are minimally invasive. The flourocarbon really disguises the the rig. We had no bite offs last year, but they could of course be tied with seven strand if someone wanted too.Russ Smith at Smitty bait Company wil custom tie some for you if you call him.Give it a try this season. I think youll like it.
Interestingly the sucker bite in our area was very lite last season,but we noticed a definite increase in hits and the 100% hook up rate as soon as we switched to this method.The rig was featured recently on the Travis Richarson TV Show a couple weeks ago.As steve mentioned in His post this is also a great way to rig and twitch live bait with some slight modifications. |
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| Thats exactly what I was looking for.Thanks Howie |
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Differant types of sucker rigs