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Location: Lebanon,Mo | hope this method works,i just spent the last hour doing this to my baits while my wife focused in on survivor. |
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| it does help out. it reduces wear from swinging trebles. it doesnt hurt hookups either |
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Location: oswego, il | It does work but one word of caution. It can make some baits hang up on the leader quite frequently. In general very erratic jerkbaits and some glide baits but not all. Baits that have hooke mounted far forward on the bait or hooks that can nearly reach the nose can do it also. They can always be bent back. |
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| Any hooks that can wrap around the nose of the lure or tangle with each other are too big and should be changed. That's just a lousy set-up to begin with.
T-ing hooks isn't a must, but you won't scratch the heck out of your expensive lures and the hooks will seldom stick in the side of the lure body , wasting a cast. Happens with Suicks a lot for me.
I like my hooks to be outside the body of the lure. Any extra metal sticking out is a plus in my book.
Make sure when you do it that the eye of the hook is perpendicular to the screw eye. I've seen guys T hooks, only to have them T'd wrong and actually rub on one side of the lure and not on the other. When T'd properly, the hook shank forming the bottom of the T will point straight out from the body, and the top parts will stick out 90 degrees from the body. I used to have a picture somplace. I'll have to do a search.
I did a search for T'd hook and found the picture that shows it, but I can't get it to show up on the thread. Can one of you computer savy guys do the search...T'd hook, all posts...find the picture and post it? I tried and can't.
Thanks,
Beav
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| Thanks.
It's hard to see, but that is a properly "T'd" hook.
One barb is looking straight up at you.
The other 2 are laying flat on the table.
The eye of the hook should lay perpendicular to the belly of the lure and in line with the hook shank pointing away from the lure, otherwise it will still rub.
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| Word of caution:
"T" ing hooks on some baits cause them to not fit in Plano 3700 boxes anymore.
It's a real pain in the butt!!
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| Can I say "butt" ?
Edited by esoxaddict 11/17/2006 1:44 PM
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| the hook shown with the split ring would not work on a bait that has no ring.. |
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| You mean like a Reef Hawg?
I can't think of many that don't use split rings.
Split rings will ruin the action of a Reef Hawg.
I've cut hooks off of Suicks that had no rings, and the action improved.
You can add a splitring to any lure that has a place to attach a hook.
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Location: north central wisconsin | Woodie is absolutely correct. The T'd hook shown would not work in the applications where no split ring is used. I typically do not t hooks that are split ringed, as they already swing freely, and will wear on most lures no matter what. The exception is flat sided cranks, where it still seems to help. Most hooks are t'd on trolling lures without rings. The hooks are on screw eyes, and not on rings for the reason that they do not swing as much and will not wear the lure in two over a week of trolling with it. The screw eyes on these lures are left out further than on most lures, and the hook still has plenty of 'travel'. The dudes making lures out east and on ake St. Claire(including Woodie) really has it figured out! |
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| Didn't say it was for every application, just showing how it looks when done correctly.
I T almost all of my belly hooks, so that there is some steel sticking out from the sides and not just rubbing along the belly.
My gliders have flat sides, and when I T the belly hook, the points stick out a good half-inch on each side. I figure that it gives me a slightly better chance of catching flesh, which is what hooks are supposed to do. |
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Location: oswego, il | I can say that Beav's gliders work well with "t"-ed hooks. I love my Perkas by the way. Now take another bait that I absolutely love, the TR Twitcher. You "t" the front hook on one of those and most of your casts will at some point hang up on the leader. Not "t"ing that front hook(all my 8"ers and shorter only have one belly hook) keeps that fouling to a minimum. There are a few other gliders that foul too with a "t"ed hook. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Good Points Beav. Will T a few on my Nitros and Phantoms for next trip. |
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