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The front hook is a gami live bait 8/0 hd, which is thicker than a 5/0 octopus but around the same size. The stinger helps with short strikes, lets you catch bluefish that go to chop the sluggo in half, and help the sluggo stay on the hook when you go to realy launch a cast out there. Its really important to wrap the hooks with thread and super glue the sluggo on.
I tried fishing these this past year. You need a lighter pole and lighter line than what im used to fishing. The bait was not heavy enough to use with braid on a bigger setup and i kept getting windknots. To properly retrieve it you gotta keep twitching it, sometimes very aggressivly like a rigged eel. It helps to have a shorter pole with a shorter butt to do this, something around 8 feet or so.
I didnt end up using it too long though as i prefer eels and have all the confidence in the world in them. Stevie claims that the sluggo will hold its own fished side by side with an eel though.
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