Eben, we found out (jim, joe and I) that the treble in the shads mouth helped out with less gut hooking. The shad there get to pretty decent size, setting up with a single hook, may lead to actually ripping it out of a cows mouf before she can clamp down on it, with the trebles we would hang most fish in the corner of their mouf, or upper pallete. We use a bucktail at the end instead of the shad dart, dunno if that would work out better for you.
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