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Location: Nowheresville, MN | I thought I'd share a picture I got tonight of a beautifully spotted, solid 45"er
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Fish stayed pinned after two unbelievable complete aerials, then came off right at the boat just sitting there. By then she was hooked by the front tooth. Each time she jumped a chunk of tail went flying like 10 feet, it was quite a spectacle.
It really irritates me when these shovel-nosed pigs won't eat anything but these less than ideal hooking baits. Can you guess which hook she had?
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Location: S.E. Wisconsin | Wow...I just changed rings on 3 new ones....looks like ill be changing hooks also, hope that wire holds up  |
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| cant melt that one back together..... |
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| $17....................FLUSH. |
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Location: Not where I wanna be! | HA!
thats funny!!
retire that lure and go get another!!!
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| Crazy thing is, I'd probably pay $17 to see the fight you described. Better than HBO Boxing after dark. Steve |
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| Must have been a pretty crazy battle. I must ask though, why that hook is bent that much. Looks like a xx strong round bend or something similar. Maybe a faulty one, or a drag too tight? Shouldn't bend like that. Cool pic though, of a now custom made mantle piece... |
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Location: Twin Cities | Thats the same story I had with my dawgs untill I made the BIG change to them. First - remove all the hooks and split rings off the dawg. 2. Add bucher split rings and 8/0 hooks. 3. I add shrink tubing over the split rings/hooks so that the hooks stay more perpendicular to the bait and so I dont get a foul hooked bait on the cast. The farther the hooks got away from the bait and the bigger the hooks got helped me big time.
My hooking % is now Excellent to say the least. Just as good as any other bait IMO now. |
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Jonesi...Bwaahaa! Exactly. Add another one to the trash pile, at least this one was from a fish. I have no Idea why those hooks bent. They are 6/0 mustad somethings. The only thing I can figure is the 7 oz of bait wheeling back and forth out of the water put some massive torque on em.
I missed another miscreant of the deep tonight. Dang these things. I swear you could cut all the hooks off and put one treble on the attachment eye and you would catch way more fish than having the other two hooks.
Dogger- I've been thinking of doing that. So you think your % has gone up with the hooks straight down? Do they become even more weed magnets. |
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Location: Twin Cities | Yea, They do grab a few more weeds, but on some lakes I want to get that dawg in the weeds so that I can then give it the weed ripping pull that triggers alot of strikes. I actually dont shrink tube the entire split ring and hook, I do about 90% of the ring and then down the shank of the hook. This keeps the hooks from just flopping over and catching the body and sticking, catching the leader with the front hook, getting "bullnuts" as some say too. I think many would agree there is a small art to throwing a dawg and if you can keep that dawg from becoming fouled up thats one more cast not gone to hell and your chances of cathcing a fish just went up a little more. I see alot of people spending more time fixing a dawg then actually having it in the water.
I would give more of my hook up % improvement to the bigger hooks but With those big @ss hooks they tend to want to grab alot of stuff besides the fish - but when a fish wants to eat - them hooks are there. I know everyone says keep your hooks sharp but on a dawg i take that to another level - I want them like needle sharp. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I have a pic of a brand new mag dawg that looks almost exactly like this one...from about 2 weeks ago in MN when I got rocked by a 50 incher that despite me doing everything right, came up out of the water like a tarpon, head shaking etc...it threw the dawg....when I reeled in the dawg it was completely torn up, bent 90 degree's, and one of the hooks was bent out...
it was cool to see...except the dawg flying thru the air part....
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| I'd better do some looking at the hooks on some of my dawgs. I never thought the bending out would ever be a problem, but as said, with the added weight, it just might be. Gonna put some big 774's on a few of mine today. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | here is my dawg....one fish...destroyed.
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Location: Hayward, WI | Caught my first ever Dawg fish yesterday. Yep, that's right, no crying, no missed opportunity. Nailed the first one that ever took a look at it. No need for fancy hooks here, just plain skill. Here's the dawg after one fish.
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Location: Hayward, WI | Oh, I suppose you all want to see the fish huh? Try not to be jealous. I didn't get a measurement on this bad boy, but I would guess he was pushing all of 28 inches. What do you think he would girth out at...
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| curleytail -
that dawg is so repairable. just a little chewed is all. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Yep, don't worry. It's melted back together as we speak. Just thought I would join the fun. 
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | CHEATER! It's a regular. Nothing but a snack to them. Don't worry, I landed I think the first 5 that hit. Since then, not so much.
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Location: Hayward, WI | tfootstalker - 8/8/2007 4:27 PM
CHEATER! It's a regular. Nothing but a snack to them. Don't worry, I landed I think the first 5 that hit. Since then, not so much.
Can't get anything past you guys! You only knew it was a regular from my other post. Hrrumph. I go out and catch a Jim Dandy like that and everyone wants to take my thunder from me. ;). I suppose the photo critics will show up soon and tell me the fish is no longer than 27 3/8" due to the width of my hand, the "M" of Minnkota of my Trolling motor, how blue the sky was, etc. etc.
Some day I might have something useful to contribute to a thread...
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Location: Appleton, WI | LOL Curleytail you're wise beyond your years Something tells me you've been around the block or two.
Got a chuckle out of me.
catch ya later,
Krappie
P.S. Is it a sign that if you add 222 to the number of my current posts that maybe I should just stay out of the boat for the rest of the year?
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Location: Hayward, WI | Thanks Krappie. I might only be 21, but I've been fishing since I was three, bought a boat before my first vehicle, and have been surfing these types of fishing boards for a while, so maybe that makes me a grizzled veteran at an early age?
I would say that if you have 665 posts, just double post your next one to bump you to 667. Should be able to keep fishing with no worries that way.
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