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numbskull · 01-09-2017, 02:52 PM

Is this the 4 5/8" plug?
If so I think I was told some years ago that it fished best with a 2/0 belly treble and a 5/0 tail dressed siwash.

I have built and fished a few copies of this plug set up as above. It tended to run deep and with wider sweeps than I wanted. A bit unstable which might be because of too much tail weight. If yours rolls setup as above you might try dropping to either just a flag on the tail or perhaps 1/0 trebles front and back (but I've not tried either on mine).

01-09-2017, 02:52 PM	#2
numbskull Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master iTrader: (0) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: over the hill Posts: 6,682	Is this the 4 5/8" plug? If so I think I was told some years ago that it fished best with a 2/0 belly treble and a 5/0 tail dressed siwash. I have built and fished a few copies of this plug set up as above. It tended to run deep and with wider sweeps than I wanted. A bit unstable which might be because of too much tail weight. If yours rolls setup as above you might try dropping to either just a flag on the tail or perhaps 1/0 trebles front and back (but I've not tried either on mine).