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| I am fresh off the water and totally disgusted. At days end I finally had a take on the sucker. As I got over the top and set the hook on what felt to be a real good fish............I broke free and got back a straightened out Duolock snap. This also had happened to my partner a week ago. I am off the build a better leader with a better snap. I highly recommend anyone using these rigs to do the same. Not that they fail everytime, but once is enough and twice is TOO MANY!! Has anyone else ever had this happen?? I have to say that this is a weak link in this system. I hope this is advice that will help others!...........and also save a fish from swimming around with a face full of hooks!
FYGR8
Edited by FYGR8 11/4/2005 5:18 PM
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Location: Lino Lakes, MN | Smokey's is carrying a rig made FinAdk(I think). I have used a few rigs over the years and this is by far my favorite. The harpoons that he uses make it super easy. It comes as a rubberband rig but I change that out for a split ring and a jig to hook into the suckers lip. The only place that I know of that carries them is Smokey's, but you might be able to get them elsewhere.
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Location: oswego, il | I always make my own rigs. I can't comment on the store bought ones but the less hardware, the better. |
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Location: Rhinelander. | Guys, single wire for sucker rigs. Just a swivel and a single hook, attached to a treble and that leads to another treble. distance between depends on sucker size. Hook ass backawards as single hook in front of tail. trebles in back of the musky just both sides of top fin. This allows sucker to swim more snag free as hooks point to the tail. Also as there is no hook in the mouth the muskie can swallow sucker head first in a flash if it hits it that way,no leader in the way.
This works great. only the swivel could fail. one piece of wire and 3 good hooks should serve you well. I keep hearing all this stories of lost fish on sucker rigs. I don't lose many at all fishing this rig. I have many made to accomodate sucker length
I've mentioned this befor and no one seems to try it. If your lose fish on suckers try it!!!!
I have found fooling around with rubberbands and things through the nostrils a waste of time. Some of the rigs today for sucker fishing consist of way too much hardware. This means higher chance for something to go wrong, keep it simple. I'll try to get a pic of one the rigs I use.
I have been also making them out of florocarbon and not been bit off yet. I've not used often enough yet to say it won't happen.
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| the more you have, the more you have that can go wrong, period |
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| i have good success with the lift-off rigs.
i like having the two trebles, one for each side.
however, i don't use the included leader w/duo-lock snap.
i just attach the rig directly to a standard fluorocarbon leader with a snap-lok. |
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| The Fin Tak mentioned earlier in the posting is very good, but I've also used Land O Lakes tackles rig with good success, this set up has a small crappie gig with a lite wine hood on a small snap in the suckers mouth, and a treble with offset hook for side of sucker. Been using them two years and love them.  |
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| Don, I would love to see a photo of your single strand rig. I have been playing with designing one to use and can come up with nothing I like.
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| Ditto Lambeau. Honestly though, a SMALLER sucker (6-8in) and a single CIRCLE HOOK that is carefully attended to and set within seconds of a strike will work wonders on enticing hard to bite fish (OF ALL SIZES) and put them into your net (NOT your boat I hope!). |
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