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hickroots07 · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:43 am Post subject: Changing trebles on topwaters

So i changed my hooks from trebles to j hooks for the first time. This morning i missed about 5 reds that hit my lure. Is that whats to be expected or do i need to fish it differently? Also had several misses on the fly rod as well on a topwater popper fly. Maybe just a day of short strikes?
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ironmanstan · Last edited by ironmanstan on Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:02 am; edited 1 time in total

ziacatcher · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:14 pm Post subject:

Where do you find water without tons of floating grass that you were able to throw top Waters? I haven't been able to find any anywhere

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

I rigged some topwaters up this spring with j hooks in the back, not so much for grass, but because the trebles kept bending, even with relatively light drag.

I found that about 75% of the time, I was hooking the fish on the front hook that was still a treble hook. I missed a ton of fish just putting a j hook in the back ring.

if there's that much grass, I just throw a weedless soft plastic.

hickroots07 · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:19 pm Post subject:

blackhawk78418 · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:35 pm Post subject:

I always replace my hooks right out of the box on my topwaters. I use heavier hooks and rings. I like my lures to sit a certain way in the water. I guess you can say I tune em.

ironmanstan · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 6:13 am Post subject:

Kingz · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 9:00 am Post subject:

Recently switch over to singles(bout a year)...Rigged as pictured, kinda a PIA, but worth it IMO, lets chance of accidents for noob's, especially in the close quarter battles in a yak...

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No probs so far, very happy on this end...

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ziacatcher · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 1:40 pm Post subject:

I am assuming you are doing this for C and R. If so, do what is required on C and R trout streams and go barbless on your trebles.

gdavis · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 1:45 pm Post subject:

SeanHHH · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 5:52 pm Post subject:

There is s reason why the manufacturer sells them with trebles instead of singles. Wink

hickroots07 · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 8:33 pm Post subject:

rms2005 · Finger Mullet Joined: 09 Sep 2014 Posts: 29

as soon as I buy just about any lure the trebles come off and singles go on. front one facing forward and rear facing back. I seem to hook just as many with the rear as the front and never have noticed any difference in hookups. I try to size mine that the gap on the single is the same width as the whole treble.

lifeaquatic · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:52 am Post subject:

Love the pics from Kingz. Was fishing a bone S Jr just like it Saturday and the reds really committed to eating. The trout were just slapping at it, but they will do that when there are six barbs too.

Don't have to worry about so many hooks to handle. Never had a single hook straighten like the trebles do. They are not weedless but pick up less grass.

Bigrock · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:07 pm Post subject:

I have changed out hooks on many of my bass topwater plugs. Don't like gangs of trebles everywhere when I am wading or kayak fishing the creek here. I have noticed no decline in my hookup ratio and there is a lot less worry. I rig them as others have mentioned.