double hooking live bait / stinger hooks
When fishing walleyes up north they often short strike live bait. Meaning that they bite the tail off. I have seen this happen often with soft plastic baits here in the gulf.
To catch these short striking walleye the bait are often double hooked, once in the nose and a second small hook is used at the tail of the bait.
Likewise, when we were pursuing snapper they had a two hook system used on the bait fish. one up through the nose, the second hook attached to the eye of the first hook via a length of wire approximately the length of the bait. The hook was run through the bait where it laid flat against the body of the bait. I would say that they two hooks were aproximately equally successful at landing fish.
I know that most of the gulf's predatory fish are head strikers but Do you think that we might be able to increase our percentage of hookups by double hooking/adding stingers to our baits?
To catch these short striking walleye the bait are often double hooked, once in the nose and a second small hook is used at the tail of the bait.
Likewise, when we were pursuing snapper they had a two hook system used on the bait fish. one up through the nose, the second hook attached to the eye of the first hook via a length of wire approximately the length of the bait. The hook was run through the bait where it laid flat against the body of the bait. I would say that they two hooks were aproximately equally successful at landing fish.
I know that most of the gulf's predatory fish are head strikers but Do you think that we might be able to increase our percentage of hookups by double hooking/adding stingers to our baits?
posted by steven-hoffman | 4:29 PM
2 Comments:
I thought about using stinger hooks for bigger baits such as a whole horse mullet. Two reasons I haven't been using multiple hooks is that I was worried about gut hooking a bull red or shark I didn't want to keep and I haven't had a problem with whole mullet getting bit in half. Sharks and reds don't seem to have a problem taking the whole bait in.
I think a stinger hook would be a good idea for lures when your fishing for trout flounder or spanish. They seem to shortstrike a lot. I bought some thin, single strand wire a long time ago but I haven't used it yet.
I concur about the horse mullet and the large fish.
It appears as if this is something which will require some degree of field research and empirical evidence.
The next time I go to bounce a mud minnow around the bottom looking for flounder I will consider putting on a small stinger
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