Help - Tail dress but no hook, how?

[spence]

Why can't use just use a small split ring on the screw eye

-spence

[PI guy]

My bad I guess you could.

[Slipknot]

they use a hook and tie the bucktail on, then cut the hook.
You can also use a screw eye but a cheap hook is more economical

[nightfighter]

Why cut a perfectly good hook???? I prefer the siwash tail all dressed out, actually I swap out the tail treble for that hook most of the time.

[Jigman]

Take a piece of stainless wire, make a bend in it like you would normally do for a line tye on a thru-wire plug. Instead of straightening out the wire to insert in a plug, cut it. You now have a loop with an open end. Tie the bucktail or whatever on the length of wire like you would for a siwash hook. Slip the loop over the tail loop of the plug and close with pliers. Simple, cheap Give me a minute and I'll snap a photo or two.

Jigman

[Jigman]

Here is an example all tied up and one attached to a plug. The advantage of the wire over using a hook is that it is lighter, so your plug will have more tail swing. That may or may not be a good thing depending on your plug.

Jigman

[Nebe]

why would you have to re-wire a plug if you use a screw eye??? Salty sells perfect stainless screw eyes for this and I do it on some of my swimmers. Its nice because the threads on the screw eye really hold the thread nice. The screw eyes come with an open eye, so all you do is crimp the loop of the eye around your tail loop. \

No tail hook = no saber toothed golden eyed bastaages

[NIB]

Originally Posted by Jigman

Here is an example all tied up and one attached to a plug. The advantage of the wire over using a hook is that it is lighter, so your plug will have more tail swing. That may or may not be a good thing depending on your plug.

Jigman

I used to do the same thing but bluefish would pull em off.so now I make a little rap out of the wire or use screw eyes.i also got a box of old small open eyes I cut the hook off of.I have also used brass sinker eyelets.