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numbskull · 03-26-2012, 05:19 AM

You want it to roll, it is only way the fish can see the color you paint it. If that bothers you, paint it solid color. Spooks work best when you get them to thrash as well as glide. I would not fool with belly weight and certainly not a chin weight unless you are trying to build an underwater glider.

Loose the siwash. Too big, heavy, and long (and absolutely NO bucktail). You don't want drag on the tail of a spook, it really kills the action (witness how just a little weed on a tail hook makes a spook impossible to work). I'd probably test it with 3/0's before seeing if it can carry 4/0's. Bernzy's howdy uses 1/0 hooks.

03-26-2012, 05:19 AM	#25
numbskull Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master iTrader: (0) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: over the hill Posts: 6,682	You want it to roll, it is only way the fish can see the color you paint it. If that bothers you, paint it solid color. Spooks work best when you get them to thrash as well as glide. I would not fool with belly weight and certainly not a chin weight unless you are trying to build an underwater glider. Loose the siwash. Too big, heavy, and long (and absolutely NO bucktail). You don't want drag on the tail of a spook, it really kills the action (witness how just a little weed on a tail hook makes a spook impossible to work). I'd probably test it with 3/0's before seeing if it can carry 4/0's. Bernzy's howdy uses 1/0 hooks. Last edited by numbskull; 03-26-2012 at 05:25 AM..