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Location: Far Northwest Chicago Suburb | Are there any hook manufacturers that sell T style treble hooks. This would make my life and many other musky nuts lives easier! I have seen them on Leo's baits but are they made that way or are they bent into the T before sold? |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | Nick,
They are bent that way before the Leo Crankbaits are sold.You just gave me an idea for the Pittsburgh Muskie Fishing Expo.I was going to sell treble hooks from 3/0 to 12/0,now I will put together a few packages of hooks already "T"ed with quality splitrings to sell at my booth.I will also have swivels,snaps,rods,reels,bechman nets,lakewood boxs,bumpboards and assorted crankbaits.
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Location: Far Northwest Chicago Suburb | Larry,
I'm surprised vmc, mustad, eagleclaw and other hook manufactures have not already made T trebles. Maybe the market is to small or it costs a lot of money to make the T version. It really is not hard to bend the hooks, but it would be nice to pick up a ten pack or more of vmc T'ed trebles. Thank you for the insite on Leo's, and I will pickup some of those trebles some day. Think about putting on wolverines and doublewire splits for the hooks. Some guys like both kinds! |
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Location: West Bend, WI | HI,I have t'ed a few hooks in the past.Where recommended by others like suiks.The question that I have though is on what baits do you find yourself most ofton doing this.Why not just do them all??? |
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| This is probably gonna sound dumb but could someone post a pic of what a T'd treble looks like?? I just can't seem to understand, so a picture might help. Thanks |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | T'ing trebels makes a big difference on any wide bodied bait. I don't own a Bobie, Reef Hawg, or Hawg Wobbler without the trebles bent into a T. |
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Location: Far Northwest Chicago Suburb | In order to make a treble hook T'ed you must first take a lure and hold it so it is pointed up, and let gravity work. The hooks will be resting in a position identical to when retrieved in water. Look at the hooks in this position, the two that are on the surface of the lure should be bent over, so that the hook is no longer touching the lure (point of hook). T'ing a treble will keep the hooks from digging into the lure. If not the paint will really start coming off when retrieving, or a big fish won't get hooked properly.
Another way to describe T'ed trebles is to lay one flat on a table. There is a gap under the treble. Bend those hooks touching the table so the treble will no longer have a gap or bend them horizontal with the table or surface.(the hooks still should point in the proper postion when on a lure horizontally, up!) Doing it this way may not work when putting the hook back on the lure! The first paragraph is the best way! The key is the split ring and how the hook sits on the lure when held pointing up.
The best lure to do this on are hard wood or plastic musky lures. The ones that are fat or rounded, like eddie baits, reef hawgs, cobbs, hughes rivers, punishers, widowmakers, bobbie baits, jackpots, topwater lures, etc.
Bucktails, and thin hard baits really don't need T'ed trebles. |
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