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I have fished them texas style with owner offset hooks and some
with the weights/twist.
Love the action...and caught plenty of fish that way.
Then one day I was fishing them in a spot and kept on getting
takes and when I would set the hook... the drag would slip and the
hook would pop. On the third attempt I tightened the drag down
all the way. Again hook up....set the hook and the fish took off. I
set the hook again. This was a big fish.....taking line like I had no
drag at all.
After ten seconds I was off again. The rig came back intact with
the hogy nearly in perfect shape...even swimming correctly. What I
think happened was that I had a big fish and those wire hooks,
though sharp, could not bury into the mouth of the fish....that the
wire may have been flexing or the plastic was in the way of making
a clean set.
As much as I love fishing them texas... I will only fish them with a
single straight J hook from now on. I tried the other day to get a
baggs leadhead into them but as you know the plastic on them is
only wide enough to accept a hook shank.
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