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Rockfish9 · 02-05-2007, 03:54 PM

Professor,

Back in '84. we had a tremendous school of big bass sitting in the mouth of the Merrimack, the most effective way to get them when the tide was running was with a 300' shot of wire and a plug... a goo-goo being the weapon of choice when the tide was realy cranking,light blue, or rainbow the best offering... the problem was for every 10 fish hooked up, you would land one, droppping fish became maddening ,especialy afterdropping out of the rip and fighting the fish for a few minutes, a half dozen of us switched to all siwash single hooks, even on the belly hooks, you had alot of bumps that didnt hook, but when you did hook up,you owned the fish..... the screw eyes were, as everyone knows, another problem,,so when I started making my own, I through wired them and kept the single hook on the tail, I also weight the chin a little, IMHO, this makes an even better swimming plug than the original....

I'll be sure to give ya one of my doctored goo-goo's ,I've got a few more I need to rig tonight, along with a fancy, smancy rainbow trout giant with a siver scale on top....

thanks for the question...
Roc

02-05-2007, 03:54 PM	#12
Rockfish9 Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river Posts: 3,748	Professor, Back in '84. we had a tremendous school of big bass sitting in the mouth of the Merrimack, the most effective way to get them when the tide was running was with a 300' shot of wire and a plug... a goo-goo being the weapon of choice when the tide was realy cranking,light blue, or rainbow the best offering... the problem was for every 10 fish hooked up, you would land one, droppping fish became maddening ,especialy afterdropping out of the rip and fighting the fish for a few minutes, a half dozen of us switched to all siwash single hooks, even on the belly hooks, you had alot of bumps that didnt hook, but when you did hook up,you owned the fish..... the screw eyes were, as everyone knows, another problem,,so when I started making my own, I through wired them and kept the single hook on the tail, I also weight the chin a little, IMHO, this makes an even better swimming plug than the original.... I'll be sure to give ya one of my doctored goo-goo's ,I've got a few more I need to rig tonight, along with a fancy, smancy rainbow trout giant with a siver scale on top.... thanks for the question... Roc