ChilliSpoons
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On your Hootchie hook setup what is your preference, tandem or single? Hook sizes? Swivel before hooks? Beads, color/glow?
Glad this came up as I have been toying with the single vs tandem issue. For me, it depends if I'm fishing the hoochie or fly naked (without a flasher) or behind a flasher. If naked, I want my lure as light as possible so I use a single 5-0, and a coffee stirrer straw or tubing to get my hook to the back of the lure. With a flasher, the weight isn't as much of an issue. that being said, I am switching to a single behind a flasher for different reasons. I think the tandem hook is a pain when trying to get the hook out of the fish. Usually the other hook grabs the net, or my hand. I think that if you are fishing a tandem hook, that the biggest benefit of the front hook is to place a strip of herring. I think that a very small strip of salted herring on the lead hook gives the best scent possible.
Ahh ok when you said just a hoochie I assumed it was without a wiggle disc etc. Cool cheersfishin solo, adanac,
There are multiple products on the market that give a hoochie action without a flasher - jughead, wiggledisc, wiggle fin, scotty squid devil, OKI crazy 8 just to name a few. I've had success with most of these, and always run a dummy flasher off the ball. Catching salmon without a flasher is a hoot compared to the drag of an in-line flasher.
Howard