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I consider nail weights to be a lot of work for little added weight. For different depths I will use different hooks. I only use single hooks, even on large 14" baits. I will use unweighted for top of the water column, use a weighted swimbait hook for mid-water and put it on a jig head for getting down deep.

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Check out "fishing and rigging sluggos- steve mckenna" on youtube. His style uses 2 hooks and nail weights. I've used this style with success but I feel it is mostly a subsurface style bait. Even if you let it sink for a while it will get worked to the surface rather quickly.

 

I also feel that while the weights help slightly with casting, it's main purpose for me is the added action and keeping the bait under the surface as opposed to on the surface.

 

If you do use this style bait you may want to use it with an adult diaper. They can hit this bait real hard and real close. In the middle of a calm, dark, silent night a 30 lber blasting this bait 3 ft from you may cause some "accidents."

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Check out "fishing and rigging sluggos- steve mckenna" on youtube. His style uses 2 hooks and nail weights. I've used this style with success but I feel it is mostly a subsurface style bait. Even if you let it sink for a while it will get worked to the surface rather quickly.

 

I also feel that while the weights help slightly with casting, it's main purpose for me is the added action and keeping the bait under the surface as opposed to on the surface.

 

If you do use this style bait you may want to use it with an adult diaper. They can hit this bait real hard and real close. In the middle of a calm, dark, silent night a 30 lber blasting this bait 3 ft from you may cause some "accidents."

Lmfao! Well thought bring some TP with ya.

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I prefer the white 12" with two hooks and no weights. I did weight one with some large decking screws to help it sink a bit faster and also make sharper turns when imparting action, but I found myself going back to the unweighted version more often. I primarily fish in rocky/boulder field areas with 8' to 15' of water at high tide, with most hits coming while the lure is just under or at the surface.

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Originally Posted by BillO View Post

 

I agree, though I don't use sluggos that often..  Eels are similar when I reel in slow and few twitches..  I get blowups at the canal 10ft out by some big bass




I've had that happen several times. The first time I missed fish and pulled 5oz. of lead with 9 inch sluggo past my face into rocks behind me. Very lucky . Second time I slipped after setting hook, lost fish, fell on rocks landing in blood from fish I already had. Packed up went home.


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plan on rigging up some black sluggos for those dark nights, due you guys use the 1 hook or 2 hook rigging method and how about nail weights??

 

I use the 2 hook style with weights for shallow water/boulder fields.

Although there may not be any advantages in the fish attraction department or hook up ratio over a single weedless rig, I find the 2 hook rig holds up to general wear and tear better, as in dragging through weed, repeated casting etc. Also changing over to another color sluggo or to another lure, you unclip or untie the whole thing without enlarging or ripping the hook hole in the plastic as with a single hook, unless you have already prepared single hook style pre hooked with super glue, thus changing the hook as well.

My basic retrieve is a walk the dog just under the surface, occasionally let it sink a few feet, also when it breaks surface is OK as a distressed fish would.

just a rigging point,no hard clinching knot on the hook, use a snap or my preference a loop knot for max lure action.

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A word about retrieves with these rigs. Most of the time a moderate to fast walk the dog retr works best for me. But when nothing seems to be working, I'll slow it down and just do a slow steady retr like a needlefish, no twitching or action at all. They've hit the slow retr often enough that I'll try that if the walk the dog doesn't work.

 

And sometimes just stopping and letting it sink thru the water column works, as strange as that sounds...

 

-bd

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