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ChumChaser

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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #45 on: October 23, 2014, 03:03:10 PM »
I have been using this method ever since I saw it in one of Ed's pics a few years back. It has been working great for me ever since.  It used to take me a while to tie them up as I was doing them like a stinger hook on a fly. The knot combo in this post has saved me a lot of time.  I have also yet to kill a trout using my #4 hooks,  the big ones that come stock on spoons would ocassionsly end up through the head of an aggressive trout. So just wanted to say thanks Ed.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #46 on: October 23, 2014, 06:45:18 PM »
Caught this beautiful Coho today using this hook method. She jumped, twirled, came to shore three times before we managed to land her. I am convinced that this method is the way to go, will never fish a spoon any other way. The guy who helped me land her couldn't believe she didn't spit the hook, and I explained the method and gave him one of my spoons. He was thankful and said he's going to try it on his other spoons.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #47 on: October 24, 2014, 07:38:41 AM »
Nice fish. I got to get some dacron and rig up my spoons this way.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #48 on: October 24, 2014, 01:56:41 PM »
Ugh, I need to get some or maybe I'll just peel off some backing from a old fly reel I got. Its full floating from a old 7wt I can't seem get rid off, lol maybe I should just recycle and use that line.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #49 on: October 25, 2014, 03:15:09 PM »
Great setup that I will start using especially to save on hook costs:)

A couple of questions:

Have you had the fluoro line break on you on species that you are targeting, and what type of fluoro do you use?

Also do you always use the chartreuse colour line?

Cheers!
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #50 on: October 25, 2014, 04:16:35 PM »
Quote from: swimmingwiththefishes on October 25, 2014, 03:15:09 PM

Also do you always use the chartreuse colour line?

Cheers!


I used Orange on my gold/brass spoons. Worked well
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #51 on: October 25, 2014, 04:51:03 PM »
I suppose you could match the dacron to the color of your spoons as well? Meaning aside from Brass / Orange but like I have a couple that are green sorta scale color like a bait fish I guess with silver bottoms, could use a green dacron if such a thing exists.

Do you guys find it doesn't really matter?
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #52 on: October 25, 2014, 05:28:15 PM »
Quote from: A Frayed Knot on October 25, 2014, 04:51:03 PM
I suppose you could match the dacron to the color of your spoons as well? Meaning aside from Brass / Orange but like I have a couple that are green sorta scale color like a bait fish I guess with silver bottoms, could use a green dacron if such a thing exists.

Do you guys find it doesn't really matter?

--Colour the white with a sharpie if you think it makes a difference.
--Might use colour to identify different lenght to the hook or hook size for easy reference.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #53 on: October 25, 2014, 05:43:22 PM »
Quote from: skaha on October 25, 2014, 05:28:15 PM
--Colour the white with a sharpie is you think it makes a difference.
--Might use colour to identify different length to the hook or hook size for easy reference.

Thats a pretty good idea using it identify length.
Am not really that worried about color, I just wondered if matching the dacron with spoon color or the primary color would be beneficial but thats probably just overthinking it.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #54 on: October 25, 2014, 08:52:32 PM »
Good post.  I will try that.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #55 on: December 21, 2014, 12:20:55 PM »
Winter steelhead will be in full swing with the rivers dropping after the rains. Spoons are a great way to cover a lot of water and pick up aggressive fish -- try em out this season with the trailing hook method!
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #56 on: December 21, 2014, 09:53:25 PM »
Seems that my spoons are to sharp; Might try with some heavier braid.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #57 on: December 22, 2014, 01:24:58 AM »
Quote from: VA7DDP on December 21, 2014, 09:53:25 PM
Seems that my spoons are to sharp; Might try with some heavier braid.

That happens occasionally, generally if there is a burr on your spoon, but it shouldn't happen with all of them (I've had 2 out of the hundreds I've used this on). I find that if you have a spoon constantly sawing through the dacron, go to the split ring - swivel - open eye hook method, unless you can somehow file down the burr/sharp edge... If it's happening on all of your spoons, it may be a dacron poundage issue, old line, something like that.
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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #58 on: December 29, 2014, 01:04:07 PM »
This hook barley held on

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Re: Trailing Hook Spoon Rigging Method
« Reply #59 on: December 30, 2014, 05:01:37 PM »
As I am new to this forum I have sure learned a lot from the posts here. I tied up some spoons in this manner and it got me a fish first time out.
Thanks for a great post!!
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