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| What is your favorite sucker rig and why? I use the Herbie rigs but haven't tried many others. I like the safety pin on the Herbie rigs for securing the treble to the sucker.
Also, do you usually immediately set the hook on your quickstrikes or do you set the fish up for the hookset? I usually reel up the slack and apply some pressure to the fish while keeping the reel in freespool and wait until it runs away from me before setting the hook to ensure the treble is pulled back across the fish. This process is usally 15-45 seconds, if the fish doesn't run I will continue to reel in slowly until I can see how the muskie has the sucker in its mouth. I fish my suckers directly under the boat so there is usually only 5-12 feet of line out.
Anyone using circle hooks over quickstrikes?
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Location: Des Moines IA | Slamr showed me how to fish a Presque Isle rig, which is easy and effective. Start with Cortland tieable leader material, swivel up front. Split ring in the back. I use another split ring on the hook I want to use, attatch the 2 rings together. Then you punch a hole in the suckers snout, feed the swivel through the hole. Attatch the swivel to a regular metal leader with a cross lock snap. Then scrape some scales off back by the fin and insert the hook right behind the top fin. I also run a "stinger" (1-3 inch solid wire leader off the rear split ring) if they seem to be nipping the suckers tail. |
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Location: oswego, il | I make my own rigs. I have several styles and it depepnds on a 1 or 2 hook rig for which one i use. A 1 hook rig uses a small walleye minnow hook for the nose and a T'd 3/0 mustad rubber banded around the sucker. 2 hook rigs i like the rubber band but the small nose hook is just fine. Rubber banding 2 hooks does not seem to work as well to I stick one treble of eack hook into the sucker. |
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