sluggo video

[LeCounts1099]

HOW important is having the second/ tail hook on the 9" Slug?? Esp. if good Bass are your only target? Joe: do you & Steve both feel the tail hook is completely necessary? Do many Bass come on that one anyway? Does the lack of a tail hook negatively affect the action at all? (doubt it)...

[Joe]

I don't think you'll miss many of the better fish without the tailhook. It is important to wrap the shank of the head hook with dacron, or braid - or something that will allow the glue to bond the hook and bait together. Steve however, I've never heard of him fishing without the second hook - he's very fast at rigging them.
Just make sure you wrap the hook shank with something before gluing. If you glue the hook without wrapping it, the bait slides down the the shank and tears. I have a bunch of pre-rigged sluggos - with two hooks and with one. They're all in a box waiting for me to do photography. The double hooked sluggos are pretty expensive though because I have to pay someone to rig them - I don't have time to rig sluggos.
I'm quite sure their are several viable ways to rig the sluggos. The videos prove that the sluggos have great action and catch fish - that was the major message. Rigging and methodologies are going to vary between regions and fishing styles, just like they do for pretty much everything we use.

[Clogston29]

I fished the 9" sluggos with a single 8/0 mustad o'shaunessy hook all this season and rarely missed fish, really missed no more than I would have with any other lure plug. I wrap the top inch or so of the hook shank with either thread or braided line (I use braid that's either left over at the end of a spool or already used and ready to be changed) and glue the sluggo to that. I think if you are going to use the single hook, using one with a long shank, such as the o'shaunessy style, is important because it puts the point further back in the body but that's just me.

I'm rigging some up with two hooks now to do a side by side comparison this season. I took some out for a test yesterday and the ones rigged with two gami octopus hooks do have alittle more action, probably because they are alittle more balanced weight wise and because the shank of the head hook is shorter allowing it to pivot more.

The main problem I'm having with rigging the two hook setup is getting the sluggo to slide over the braid after the zap-a-gap is applied. It seams to bond instantly and I can't get the head to come out as good as I'd like. It comes out better if I let the glue on the braid dry, then slide it on, then insert the zap-a-gap into the head using the little pointed applicator it comes with but I don't get quite as good of a bond. Does anybody have any advise on this? Do they make a slower setting zap-a-gap?

[cheferson]

pretty sure zap-a-gap has a slower setting glue, my pops use to build model airplanes and had all kinds of different cure times.

[Nebe]

clogston, when i rig mine i dont glue anything until its all put together. just open the hole in the sluggo where your hook is protruding and squirt some glue in there and your all set. I also dont do any glueing until i have completed a batch of about 10 or 20. Infact, i do all of the steps in groups. Usually after the 2nd or the 4th sluggo they all come out perfect.

[Clogston29]

Thanks, I'll try that tonight if I can find some more zap-a-gap on the way home

[Joe]

That Nebe - He's right again.....

Rig it, then push the eye and top part of the shank forward a little to expose the wrap put a little-dab-will-do-ya of Zap on....Presto all done.
Do about 30 dozen and you should be all set for the season.
I'll rig a bunch - then glue a bunch.