Danny ? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Sea Dangles · 02-13-2006, 07:05 PM

What are some opinions on hooks and placement.4/0 seems like a good size to me and I was putting hookless bucktails on the ass.Some leave the middle off entirely and put a siwash on the ass.The iron man fills the whole shootin match with trebles.

Nebe · 02-13-2006, 07:12 PM

i like a 3/0 on the front and a 4/0 on the rear as far as trebbles. I do this because it balances out the plug a bit and keeps its head up.
5/0 siwash on the kiester.

BigFish · 02-13-2006, 07:51 PM

It really depends on the size of the body. Large I am gonna go with NEBE! Smaller like some I make I go with 2/0.

Sea Dangles · 02-13-2006, 08:15 PM

I can't remember too many bass that I've gotten on the ass hook ,but those toothy bastages are a different story.That's why I am considering going sans hook on the posterior.I picked up a lot of beachmaster dannies and the 4's look good but the Nebe suggestion warrants looking in to.Never want to go underprepared into battle cuz that 50 could be behind the next rock!

Nebe · 02-13-2006, 08:22 PM

dangles, i love a good bloofish fight so thats why i use the 5/0 on my dannies, but if you just use a bucktail with no hook, it will improve the action greatly, especially if you are crawling it in super slowly..

Stainless screw eyes are perfect for tail dressings.. the threads really hold the material in place.

Flaptail · 02-13-2006, 09:17 PM

Medium Beachmasters for instance should only be fished with 2/0's and a 5/0 rear end dressed siwash.

JFigliuolo · 02-14-2006, 08:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nebe

dangles, i love a good bloofish fight so thats why i use the 5/0 on my dannies, but if you just use a bucktail with no hook, it will improve the action greatly, especially if you are crawling it in super slowly..

Stainless screw eyes are perfect for tail dressings.. the threads really hold the material in place.

Nice tip... I NEVER thought of that...

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