Single Rigging Sluggo's New SRI How-To

[Joe]

Did a new how-to page for the SRI website.
I had a lot of requests for single rigging instructions....

CLICK HERE

[Skitterpop]

Nice post Joe

[fishsmith]

I luvs pictures, nice job, thank you.

[likwid]

Good shtuff!

now ship my bag!

[PaulS]

Easy enough to understand - Thanks Joe

[Joe]

Likwid - If your real name is Rich, and it was a gift certificate redemption - then I just shipped it....

[libassboy]

Sweet! I still use the single hook ones, especially in really nasty places, or on the north shore of LI.
Joe, ure site has alot of usefull info now!

[Joe]

Thanks - I think I'm just going to write for my website for the most part from now on.

[JoeP]

Try toothpicks to pin the hook into the Sluggo instead of glue. That way you can use the expensive hooks over & over & over...

Just jam the toothpick through the hook eye to pin it & clip the excess toothpick.

[Saltheart]

Nice job in the web work too. Illustrations are nice and the click here all works perfect. Good Job.

[wheresmy50]

Last year I rigged up a bunch with single 8/0 3407DTs - I'd keep a few double hooked sluggos in case you get into short hitting bass.

I use the toothpicks to keep the second hook from twisting. Sometimes for whatever reason, it wants to twist.

[Joe]

I'm not familar with the toothpick method...but I'm interested...

Thanks for the kudos on the web work - I'm not really too good at it - but I've found that good images are very important...
I use this thing to light them - lighting is more important than camera quality...

[NIB]

Ding fries are done.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Joe

I'm not familar with the toothpick method...but I'm interested...

Joe - Just line the hook up so you can pull the eye about 1/4 to 1/2 inch into the head of the Sluggo, jam a toothpick up through the Sluggo and through the hook eye as far as it will go (the taper of the toothpick will jam it in good), and then clip the excess toothpick on the top & bottom.

One toothpick should last for a few bass, and then just carry a small bag of toothpicks to replace them when needed. Again, this way you can keep using the hooks over & over without having to throw out otherwise good (& expensive) hooks.

I've been using this method with pretty expensive Owner 7/0 and 11/0 heavy duty, oversized worm hooks for 5 or 6 years & it's worked fine...

[fish4striper]

Joe,

Site's looking great Info is nice eye candy to drive traffic to your site.

JoeP, Nice idea with the toothpick. Is this done after you've tied the line to the hook?

[Clogston29]

When I do single hook rigs, I just wrap the first half inch or so of the hook shank with thread and glue the sluggo to that. It seams to hold well enough and its easy to tear the sluggo off when its used up and just glue another sluggo on.

[PaulS]

I'm hoping for a step by step tutorial like that for rigging eels - hint, hint

[Clogston29]

Originally Posted by PaulS

I'm hoping for a step by step tutorial like that for rigging eels - hint, hint

Get a copy of "Secrets of Surfasting at Night" by William Mueller. There's a chapter in it on just that by Al Bentson.

[PaulS]

Thanks, I do have that - just hoping for more sources

[Rockport24]

Joe, great tutorial. Your site is sweet. I would love to see more of your articles up there.

[Breezy]

why would you have to throw away the hooks if you used glue?

[Joe]

It's just a question of the time spent recycling the hook.

Obviously, with the dacron, you don't have to throw them away - you can hold the hook with a pair of pliers or put it back in the vice and cut off the dacron with an exacto or sharp knife and then just re-use them.

With the Mustad 94150 hooks, they are real cheap, but strong and not stainless. So in a worst-case scenerio, if you gut hook a fish, they can be left in the fish - they'll rot out fairly quickly.