Does anyone use plain hooks anymore????

[LOWinEYEin]

Local folk -<P>Does anyone, or anyones fathers,granddads,former roomates, use plain old hooks with sinker anymore.<P>Colored Lazerhooks?

[Scoot]

Yup, I sure do. Sometimes I do better on that than anything else. Sometimes I use a plain hook with a bead or two just above the hook too. I learned this trick from some local fisherman on Devil's Lake. Seems to outproduce other stuff on it's fair number of days. <BR>A plain hook is also my brother's favorite rig.<BR>Scoot

[Guest]

I always rig up a plain hook with a split shot a foot up tipped with a rainbow shiner for walleyes on LOW. Medium-light action rod with 6 pound test. Deadsticking. Sure is a blast. I caught one walleye around 5.5-6 pounds last winter up on LOW using this approach. Whenever I would get a fish to show up on the flasher looking at my jigging rod and it wouldn't bite, I could reach over and twitch the deadstick and about 9 times out of 10 the fish would go over and smack the plain hook and minnow. Worked really well for those larger non-aggressive fish. Don't forget about all the perch it caught too.<P>Good Fishin,<BR>Matt<P> [email protected]<BR><A HREF="http://catchn.com" TARGET=_blank>Catch-N Tackle</A><BR><A HREF="http://marcumtech.com" TARGET=_blank>MarCum</A>

[Lip RIPPER!]

Try tying the blade of a swedish pimple up above a plain hook about 12 inches or so works very well too. I always keep that set up close to me and a few people I fish with use that set up in at least one hole all of the time.

[Gissert]

I frequently use a plain Kahle hook with a split shot above it about a foot. <P>I use this set up on a dead stick and a Rock n Reel. Very productive on the shy eyes at times.

[fiskyknut]

Well a guys gotta have some hooks along and like mentioned above there are those times when a plain hook will outfish anything else offered.<P>I'm with Gissert on the Kahle style, I'll take a #6 kahle in gold please.<P>The dropper rig that Ripper describes is a great option, and lot's of folks swear by this. I do this with Pimples, Kastmasters, Buckshots, and a few other types of heavier style spoons. One of my favorite rigs for those deep midwinter Perch I love to chow is a small white vengla with about an 8 inch, give or take dropper. Dropper rig is kinda boring sounding, these will now be called the 'Lip Ripper Rig'!<P>Another thing I've found to save a slow day is a small Cicada tipped with minnow head. Seems the vibration on the upjig will tick them off enough to make the bite out of reflex or something. These have turned many a slow day into an okay day for me.<P>I'm not saying that the above mentioned rigs are only for when the bite is off. I'm kinda spoiled by LOTW and I much prefer the days where they'll bite just about anything! You know your gonna have a great day when you ice your first fish after it attacks your depthbomb when you were setting your first line!<P>Fisky<P>

[HOGEYE]

Here are some of my tricks on LOW.<P> I have at many different occasions been able to get those big eyes to bite with a diff. approach. I see the large bars come in on the vex. At first I think that it is interference, but then it responds to my jig when I raise it. I slowly rise my buckshot or whatever and the large signalbar follows. Right on time when I stop raising, it looses interest. This is when I quickly drop the bait below it out of reach. It then slowly begins to drop to merge signalbars with my bait. This is when I quickly pull it up and it raises to it a bit faster. Sometime I do this cat mouse thing until I hook up and then is it on.<BR> On a side note, I have at many, many diff. times fought a fish and had them come off half way up. Well, in the deeper water I can still see these fish on the vex. Contrary to my initial beliefs I got these lost fish to bite again 7 times out of 10.<BR> I've also got the big boys to bite on a rattletrap or even a rattle n' rap.<BR> I can't wait..........<BR>

[Lip RIPPER!]

Fisky, have you given those Cicada's a try on the open water yet? If not, give it a try sometime. The big gold ones with a piece of nightcrawler. Had some fun with setup last summer.

[fiskyknut]

You betcha I have used them on openwater. Bladebaits are a great openwater bait at times. My all time biggest Walleye ever came on a gold Sonar back in the early ninties out of the Red river in late October. I don't hit the ice or the openwater without a selection of blades in the bag since then!!!<P>Fisky

[LOWinEYEin]

Not that I want exact instructions but...<P>With the Pimple blade, do you put it in between the hook and sinker?freeflowing between the two?<P>And whats a rainbow shiner? Colored?

[fiskyknut]

The weight of the pimple or whatever spoon you choose to use doubles as the weight. <P>fiskyknut

[fiskyknut]

Whoops, part 2! I'm not sure what a Rainbow Shiner is, and I trap minnows! Usually up here when you here Shiner, it's an Emerald Shiner. When you hear Rainbows, its whats known as a Rainbow Chub. Good Rainbow chubs have a good bit of yellow on their bellies, almost chartruese yellow, and they're very tough and lively.<P>Fisky

[Guest]

Yep, thats it, an Emerald Shiner, my bad. I don't know why I was thinking rainbow shiner. The emeralds are the ones they trap out of the rainy right?<P>Good Fishin,<BR>Matt<P> [email protected]<BR><A HREF="http://catchn.com" TARGET=_blank>Catch-N Tackle</A><BR><A HREF="http://marcumtech.com" TARGET=_blank>MarCum</A>

[Guest]

I always like to have at least one line down in the house with a neon colored gamagatsu hook and a sinker. Out does a jigging spoon by far on the slow days.