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swimbaitWed May-28-03 03:34 PM
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If you haven't seen it, Bass World West sells a Pro-Rig osprey that is pre-rigged with a tube through it and two gammie trebeles. It's the way to go on an osprey for hookup ratio and for the number of fish you can catch on a single bait. If you wanna rig it like this yourself, you just need some surgical tubing, two gammie hooks ( a 2/0 and a 1/0 ) and some 80lb braid. Take out the harness, shove the tubing in there, tie the two hooks together and tie your main line directly to the front hook.

If the fish are missing it that bad or not eating the bait very good, there might not be much you can do though. On the rubber trouts you are just going to miss a certain percentage of fish no matter what. Sometimes certain fish at certain lakes seem to be really good at not getting hooked.

It comes down to what you can get away with in your bait. If the fish only want Osprey and won't hit anything else, then that's that. But what if you threw a Slammer with two 2/0 gammie trebles? Think about it like this... If the fish want Osprey but you only land one out of 5 bites, but you threw the Slammer and got 3 bites and landed all 3, which would be better? You can really get the hooks into fish that swipe or head butt your bait with the Slammer. I've caught quite a few outside the mouth on it that way. Swimbait fishing really does work like this.

There are some really trick rubber baits out now that get bit really good, but you just gotta bite the bullet when you fish them because so many fish are going to get away. It doesn't mean I don't throw rubber trouts, I do. But I only do it when I'm really feeling in the mood to gamble on trying to get a big one to stick on my bait. If a big bass over 8lbs wants your lure, IT'S GONNA GET IT. It don't matter what you are throwing. But I don't get that many swimbait bites personally, and a lot of the bites I get are swipes or head butts or weak hits. If you want those fish, you have to throw a two hook wood lure, or you have to be real real lucky. The rigidity of a wood bait allows such a faster stickier hookset vs. trying to set the hook through a rubber bait.

Anyway, good luck :)

  

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Osprey Stinger hooks [View all] , basserdave, Tue May-27-03 04:33 PM
  RE: Osprey Stinger hooks, Samurai TI, May 28th 2003, #1
RE: Osprey Stinger hooks, swimbait, May 28th 2003 #2
RE: Osprey Stinger hooks, basserdave, May 28th 2003, #3
      RE: Osprey Stinger hooks, Samurai TI, May 28th 2003, #4
           RE: Osprey Stinger hooks, basserdave, May 29th 2003, #5
                RE: Osprey Stinger hooks, CATCHEM_CARO, May 30th 2003, #6
                     RE: Osprey Stinger hooks, basserdave, May 30th 2003, #7

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