Zarra Spooks

[Mal Vis]

Hi Guys

You probably know the feeling of hooking and loosing a lot of fish on the zarra spooks and the urge to brake your rods in half and burn your boat!! Well I experienced it again this weekend when I only managed only 1 hookup out of 5 positive takes on the super spook. I then, out of pure frustration, pinched two bigger trebles from one of my big jerk baits and replaced the 3 smallish trebles with these. I put one in front and one at the back and I left the middle spot open. Maybe it was just luck, but I managed 4 solid hookups (all on the back hook) out of the next 5 takes! It also didn't look like the bigger trebles affected the action of the lure.

I think the designed spacing between the 3 wire loops where you attached the hooks forced them to use the smaller trebles so the trebles wont snagg onto each other when casting or retreiving.

What if one take it a bit further and replace the two big trebles with 2 "sure set" hooks like those you get on some of the rapala lures, with the bigger hook facing down on the front, and the bigger hook facing up on the rear??

 

[AYOBA!]

my golden rule when fishing top water, wait a bit before you strike...

 

[jav123]

Medium Rod helped me a lot to increase hook ups.The rod was wrong on my side at the beginning. (Medium heavy)

 

[Go fish]

Must admit I havent bought a spook in while, but the spooks never used to come out with split rings on the hooks, I always add a split ring to the hooks so the hooks would move around more freely and prevent the fish from throwing the lure.

 

[Brakdog!]

I have replaced the normal small trebles on the super spook with sure sets, one in front and one on the back, but still waiting for a positive enquiry from a bass.... it does nothing to the action of the lure at all so Im sure its just a matter of time

 

[Mal Vis]

Managed to get my hands on two sure sets and I did the same, sad thing is that I'll only be able to fish again in about two weeks time and with the winter gaining ground on us I doubt if the surface action will be on in two weeks time. Please let me know once you've had the oppurtunity to test the sure sets. I will also report back.

 

[DocPhil]

Replace trebles with bigger, better, supersharp ones (OWNER is best for me)