Hook question

[Rockfish9]

I personaly started using them after seeing the hookup sucess ratio on my salmon lures like stingers and NK's, in the early 80's I went through a period of the "dropsies" with fish(bass) on plugs trolled on wire,I switches ALL my hooks, belly and tail to siwash... it helped,after a little extra tuning and tinkering of each plug, I missed a few fish, but once I hooked up, the fish were landed, if I'd known then, what I know now, I'd have just swiched the front hook....

So to answer your question, I use them because for me.. they work.

[numbskull]

Siwash hooks are a recent trend, lots of commerical Dannys used to come with a short shank Oshaugnessy. Unless you are targeting bluefish (or have only one belly hook) I find tail hooks more trouble than they are worth.

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

I personaly started using them after seeing the hookup sucess ratio on my salmon lures like stingers and NK's, in the early 80's I went through a period of the "dropsies" with fish(bass) on plugs trolled on wire,I switches ALL my hooks, belly and tail to siwash... it helped,after a little extra tuning and tinkering of each plug, I missed a few fish, but once I hooked up, the fish were landed, if I'd known then, what I know now, I'd have just swiched the front hook....

So to answer your question, I use them because for me.. they work.

Interesting post, Roc. I've been considering trying the same thing for the same reason lately. You still fishing them that way?

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Interesting post, Roc. I've been considering trying the same thing for the same reason lately. You still fishing them that way?

Not all of them, but I always keep a few handy rigged with singles..Less the tail hook..

I've eliminated my tail hooks on alot of my plugs, I dont care about bluefish and we all know which one will pin the bass...It's bad enough what that mini gaff can do to a fish, I dont want that sucker in my fore arm..... I've been there before!

I've found that the ones I intend to rig with singles benifit from a little added weight in the fusilage, seems to counteract the lack of rudder effect of the treble...

I know the old Creek chub Tarpon rigged pikies had singles, but I've never seen one in person, I'm ssure there was a method to their madness.

[jklett]

I think a lot of folks are mis-interpreting my question. I'm not asking about weather or not to use a siwash on a tail hook, I'm more curious as to if it's a better hook than other styles of single hooks on the plugs that would use one. There has to be a good reason why most plugs that do have a single tail hook use siwashes but I don't know the reason and I wanted to know what everybody's thoughts were.

Maybe a better question would be is a siwash a better hook than other single hooks? Does it track truer, or hold fish better, or what?