Single hooks for topwater

[Montauk17]

Originally Posted by skeeter77346

Here you go. Done a few tops with singles and they work fine. Great hook ups and no red will wreck 'em.
I find the Gamakatsu live bait hooks with the ring attached work well.
http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?mid=gtfrh#/page14/

Cool,I ordered the hooks last night gunna give em a shot.

[Salty]

The Gamakatsu hooks with the welded rings seem like overkill to me. Why wouldn't any short shank live bait hook work?

[skeeter77346]

Salty, The solid ring, when inserted on the split ring on a bait, allows the new single hook to lie either 'point up or point down'. Without the solid ring the hooks lay right or left. Play with it and use the set up you like.

[Salty]

Originally Posted by skeeter77346

Salty, The solid ring, when inserted on the split ring on a bait, allows the new single hook to lie either 'point up or point down'. Without the solid ring the hooks lay right or left. Play with it and use the set up you like.

Although I never was what you would call an "avid" topwater fisherman, I have done my share, I guess. I used the single hooks 15 years ago with double HD split rings and short shank hooks. When I said the setup was overkill....I did not mean the ring was unnecessary.

[Salty]

Pretty cool treble here.

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/BasSt...age-BSSTH.html

[Jedi Lure Tricks]

Originally Posted by Salty

Pretty cool treble here.

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/BasSt...age-BSSTH.html

the spintech is a very cool hook.. we've been carrying them for about a year at the tackle box, they work well. takes alot of leverage away from the fish.

.. we also carry the gamakatsu 'double 21' hooks. they're a little more weedless than traditional trebles.

http://www.gamakatsu.com/new_product...ouble21_22.htm