sluggo video

[Clogston29]

I fished the 9" sluggos with a single 8/0 mustad o'shaunessy hook all this season and rarely missed fish, really missed no more than I would have with any other lure plug. I wrap the top inch or so of the hook shank with either thread or braided line (I use braid that's either left over at the end of a spool or already used and ready to be changed) and glue the sluggo to that. I think if you are going to use the single hook, using one with a long shank, such as the o'shaunessy style, is important because it puts the point further back in the body but that's just me.

I'm rigging some up with two hooks now to do a side by side comparison this season. I took some out for a test yesterday and the ones rigged with two gami octopus hooks do have alittle more action, probably because they are alittle more balanced weight wise and because the shank of the head hook is shorter allowing it to pivot more.

The main problem I'm having with rigging the two hook setup is getting the sluggo to slide over the braid after the zap-a-gap is applied. It seams to bond instantly and I can't get the head to come out as good as I'd like. It comes out better if I let the glue on the braid dry, then slide it on, then insert the zap-a-gap into the head using the little pointed applicator it comes with but I don't get quite as good of a bond. Does anybody have any advise on this? Do they make a slower setting zap-a-gap?

[cheferson]

pretty sure zap-a-gap has a slower setting glue, my pops use to build model airplanes and had all kinds of different cure times.

[Nebe]

clogston, when i rig mine i dont glue anything until its all put together. just open the hole in the sluggo where your hook is protruding and squirt some glue in there and your all set. I also dont do any glueing until i have completed a batch of about 10 or 20. Infact, i do all of the steps in groups. Usually after the 2nd or the 4th sluggo they all come out perfect.

[Clogston29]

Thanks, I'll try that tonight if I can find some more zap-a-gap on the way home

[Joe]

That Nebe - He's right again.....

Rig it, then push the eye and top part of the shank forward a little to expose the wrap put a little-dab-will-do-ya of Zap on....Presto all done.
Do about 30 dozen and you should be all set for the season.
I'll rig a bunch - then glue a bunch.

[Nebe]

sometimes i am right, and sometimes i am wrong..

I make things for a living so i am always thinking of how to make things easier and faster.. What would be cool is to build a jig that would hold the sluggo and allow a rigging needle to stab the sluggo in the head and slide perfectly right out the tail where you want it. Kind of like making an arbor press into a frankenstien like sewing machine. Pull down on the lever and the needle goes through the sluggo, hook the dacron on the needle and lift up the lever and the dacron comes out the head of the sluggo... you could do one every 10 seconds.

[bart]

Joe, I'm freaking out. I need the Quicktime version. pretty please?

must suppress need to fish by living vicariously through these videos...