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DZ · 02-14-2006, 01:12 PM

My two cents:

Sea Dangles - You don't really want that third treble if your worrying about keeping a fish hooked. Big bass, when hooked with multiple trebles, have a tendency to work the trebles against each other putting them under extreme stress and causing them to fail and straighten. Believe me - less trebles is better (but not under all applications - see below). Just look at the reason for developing the danny stubby needlefish. The pocket rocket was fitted with a single hook so as to counteract the basses ability to straighten trebles on traditional size needlefish.

Now - the advantage of fishing a plug with all three trebles attached is that you will miss very few strikes. Usually if a bass hits a plug with three trebles - you hook it. I generally don't fish a plug with three trebles EXCEPT for times when the bass are just nudging my two treble plugs and I can't hook them. Then I break out the three treble plugs: Atom Junior, old Gibbs Darters and 6 inch Bombers. But I do this fully knowing that if I hook a good fish there is a good chance I'll lose it to straightened trebles.

DZ

02-14-2006, 01:12 PM	#17
DZ Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,574	My two cents: Sea Dangles - You don't really want that third treble if your worrying about keeping a fish hooked. Big bass, when hooked with multiple trebles, have a tendency to work the trebles against each other putting them under extreme stress and causing them to fail and straighten. Believe me - less trebles is better (but not under all applications - see below). Just look at the reason for developing the danny stubby needlefish. The pocket rocket was fitted with a single hook so as to counteract the basses ability to straighten trebles on traditional size needlefish. Now - the advantage of fishing a plug with all three trebles attached is that you will miss very few strikes. Usually if a bass hits a plug with three trebles - you hook it. I generally don't fish a plug with three trebles EXCEPT for times when the bass are just nudging my two treble plugs and I can't hook them. Then I break out the three treble plugs: Atom Junior, old Gibbs Darters and 6 inch Bombers. But I do this fully knowing that if I hook a good fish there is a good chance I'll lose it to straightened trebles. DZ
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