03-05-2004, 04:58 PM
hey bud, to me i believe it,s how fer down under the fin you hook the hook, haha, also depends on how big of a hook your usin too, i think. i use the snelled size 6, eagle claw, and dont go only just under the top fin not hittin the spine. then i believe they won,t die so quick. but i,ve had em last awhile with hookin em that way. but to me, i only do it this way when fishin the ponds, with a boober, or on the bottom with a slidin sinker, which the sinker is enough just to keep him in place, rather then lettin him take off and gittin ya all snagged up. under a log or somethin. depends on the size of the minner to what i put with what. i generally uuse a i3/4 inch -inch minner. my trout love em.haha i just have different ways of hookin to the place of where i,m fishin, and situation, be it brook pond river, but mainly unless there is real swift water, i hate to use sinkers/. rather have it go natural with the floatin of the water, i can feel that hit better, course with my ugly stick and light line i can feel when they just nudge it, cayse ya can sure feel the difference. IT,S FUN! HAHA[
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]i reallly dont use any other hook raather than a six, it,s a good all round hook, and have never had a eagle claw double snelled, with the 2 swivel holder line on it fail me. either one has never broke. and i,ve caught some good ones with em! haha later be it trout bass, pike walleye, as long as there teeth don,t hit it, but then i,m not goin fer em, i,m just fishin where there at and they hit. [NOT SET UP FER EM}} CAUSE I ALWAYS FISH FER TROUT, OR BASS, AND CAN DO EITHER WITH MY MINNERSS. YA KNOW, []AS FER AS HOOKIN IT THRUGH the lip, when i,m fihin my river over in plymouth, its a good swift water, but without havin to use a sinker, i go thru the mouth, thru the gill with the hook facin in and then go to the top of the side of the minner and hook it thru to the other side of the minner with the end of the hook just stickin out to the other side of the minner, so,s the fish dont feel it when he gits it in his mouth. cause he,s gonna run with it till he stops to eat it. he runs again and then nub him. thats waht i do. dont matter ifthe minner crokes cause he,s goin with the current anywasy and it,s not long fer ya got a hit this ways anyways cause it,s more natural lookin to em. dont know if thats the ways you do it or not, but i do.later it,s more that the current doesn,t pull the minner off in the current easier this ways.
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][]i reallly dont use any other hook raather than a six, it,s a good all round hook, and have never had a eagle claw double snelled, with the 2 swivel holder line on it fail me. either one has never broke. and i,ve caught some good ones with em! haha later be it trout bass, pike walleye, as long as there teeth don,t hit it, but then i,m not goin fer em, i,m just fishin where there at and they hit. [NOT SET UP FER EM}} CAUSE I ALWAYS FISH FER TROUT, OR BASS, AND CAN DO EITHER WITH MY MINNERSS. YA KNOW, []AS FER AS HOOKIN IT THRUGH the lip, when i,m fihin my river over in plymouth, its a good swift water, but without havin to use a sinker, i go thru the mouth, thru the gill with the hook facin in and then go to the top of the side of the minner and hook it thru to the other side of the minner with the end of the hook just stickin out to the other side of the minner, so,s the fish dont feel it when he gits it in his mouth. cause he,s gonna run with it till he stops to eat it. he runs again and then nub him. thats waht i do. dont matter ifthe minner crokes cause he,s goin with the current anywasy and it,s not long fer ya got a hit this ways anyways cause it,s more natural lookin to em. dont know if thats the ways you do it or not, but i do.later it,s more that the current doesn,t pull the minner off in the current easier this ways.[signature]