Cutty fish are strong

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

Time to upgrade all my serious plugs to 6X hooks, the 4X VMC's ain't making it.
After this happened I upgraded this howdy to the 6X and it still caught fish fine.

Toby isn't kidding when he says bring your heaviest gear for fishing there.

Good pics slip, hopefully you landed some good ones. One question for all of you hard core plug guys out there though..... Have you tried single siwash hooks on your big plugs, say 5/0 or 6/0, instead of the trebles, or does it mess the plug's action up? By this I mean the belly hooks, not the tail hooks. A charter captain I used to fish with off momomoy would switch out the belly hooks and install big siwash hooks(as large as 9/0) to pull very large fish from the rips on wire line. You still see some guys doing it off cutty with the J-plug knockoffs too. In my mind, a real large fish would be more likely landed from the surf this way too. Thoughts?