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ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

Finally got out for the first time in nearly a week. Waded at IMS-Rock for about an hour and a half around sunset to kill some time after work. Got a few small trout plus one 18" and a 24". All on topwaters. Released the 18, kept the 24 for a fish fry with friends last night. Also, thinking about replacing the treble hooks on my superspooks with single hooks, to keep them dancing right when theres alot of floating weeds. I already miss alot of blowups with the trebles, so I am curious to see how many more I miss with the single hooks. Has anyone tried this?

Heres are some lousy cellphone pics of the 24

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5moreminutes · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:46 am Post subject:

Nice catch - I have been looking for some trout with out much luck.
The infamous question of switching out the hooks. This is a preference.

Your wanting to change out to catch less weeds so maybe less fish?
I was told by a guide well whats better 1 hook or 3 hooks?
Good Luck!
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BringThaPain · Finger Mullet Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

True Fisherman...Pic of fish in restroom and Miller High Life. Welcome to Texas brother!

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

i really need to go back through all my posted pics to see how many of them have a high-life hiding in there. I betcha its the vast majority. Like a twisted game of "Where's Waldo?"
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OutCast · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:13 pm Post subject:

Nice trout, probably a good thing you cropped that 1st photo.

ironmanstan · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:46 pm Post subject:

your going to miss alot of fish.....but its more sporty. I tried it, i'm just not that sporty.
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topdog15 · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:08 pm Post subject:

i don't miss many more fish on single hooks than treble.
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5moreminutes · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject:

If I have 1 dollars its the same as having 3 dollars...
I'm just messing with you TopDog. Its a preference thing - just like if there is too much grass I put away the top water and go weedless on my lures. oh know I take that back _ i don't want to get into the weedless set ups..lol
ltorna1 you have been on a roll with them trout.
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cckayaker · Horse Mullet Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 192

My hook ups on singles is not much lower than my hook ups on trebles.

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

those look like the exact hooks I bought for my superspook jrs. Thanks for the pic. I will do a little experiment this weekend and report how many I lose single vs treble. Also, I just bought the Zara puppy, that tiny little topwater. That things looks like it its going to be a dynamite lure when its dead calm and the fish are easy to spook off.
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Big John · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647

Nice speck.

I take the trebles off mine iwhen the weed is in and use singles too. I don't thank the miss rate is any higher or lower with either hook.

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

Ok, so phase 1 of the experiment. Went out the last 2 days. Weeds were heavy as expected. Single hooked mini-redfish-clone-colored super spook junior danced through the grass pretty effortlessly, getting lots of blowups. Hookup ratio was about 3 fish to every 8 hits. Granted, most of them were small specks that wouldn't have hooked themselves on trebles either. Fact is though, I never would have been able to even get that many blow ups with the trebles b/c of the weeds. The ones that did get hooked, they were mostly all in the lip, sometimes even both circle hooks in the mouth, and only 1 red was foul hooked on the pectoral fin base. Definitely easier on the fish, which is good considering I release alot of em. Think im sticking with the circle hooks.
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crhfish · Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject:

Thanks for this post. I'm going to sit down and change out a few hooks myself.