Spinner bait trailer hook

[Baybass]

I always have a trailer hook when fishing spinner bait. Does anyone ever not put a trailer on? And what situation would you not use trailer?

[98rangerdvs]

I have fished without one when the fish were holding in some flooded bushes/timber and the trailer kept getting hung up

[ol man river]

never use them. they always seem to kill the action of the bait to me...if youre getting ' short strikes' trim your skirt and run it a bit slower....jmho

[krainium]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by ol man river &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">never use them. they always seem to kill the action of the bait to me...if youre getting ' short strikes' trim your skirt and run it a bit slower....jmho </td></tr></table>
+1 they seem to get hung up in the grass alot more with a trailer hook.

[riverrock]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by ol man river &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">never use them. they always seem to kill the action of the bait to me...if youre getting ' short strikes' trim your skirt and run it a bit slower....jmho </td></tr></table>

[bilgerat]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by ol man river &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">never use them. they always seem to kill the action of the bait to me...if youre getting ' short strikes' trim your skirt and run it a bit slower....jmho </td></tr></table>

Just curious - is it because some guys place the keeper tubing over the trailer hook eye, then poke the spinnerbait main hook through the keeper tubing ? I could see where this would cause a trailer hook to run off center affecting the action.

I always put the trailer hook on, then placed a chunk of tubing on afterwards. This allows the trailer to swing free and self center.

Maybe I'm missing something altogether, I'm not that much of a spinnerbait guy.

[KWH]

Never use them unless there is a reason and I swear I get less bites with one especially on brown fish, if I do use one it is the small KVD one by strike king.

[mark-o]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by ol man river &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">never use them. they always seem to kill the action of the bait to me...if youre getting ' short strikes' trim your skirt and run it a bit slower....jmho </td></tr></table>+1

[Gambler Bob]

Always use a trailer hook, but i dont always use a plastic trailer.

[basscatcher1015]

I use one by Gamagatsu that has like shrink wrap on the eye work great.

[Bronzebackpro7]

Always use them. Short strikes and misses aren't fun to me

[jdskeeter]

I use them, but most of the time, the fish is hooked on the main hook.

[Skeet22]

I prefer a spinnerbait with a long shank hook so there is no need for a trailer hook.

[Charlie Paris]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by basscatcher1015 &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">I use one by Gamagatsu that has like shrink wrap on the eye work great. </td></tr></table>
+1 Those are great trailer hooks. I use one probably 90% of the time and have landed some real nice ones that were on the trailer hook.

[nsane]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Bronzebackpro7 &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Always use them. Short strikes and misses aren't fun to me</td></tr></table> that's what I'm sayin

[StratosBrad]

Always use one here. I dont slow roll spinnerbaits, or fish them slow at any time. If I'm using one, im smoking that sucker under the surface looking for a reaction bite up shallow around junk in the water. I also never use a trailer (plastic).

[blake711]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Bronzebackpro7 &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Always use them. Short strikes and misses aren't fun to me</td></tr></table> Agreed.

Rarely if in heavy timber I may remove them. Or if I am using a hulugrub as a trailer and they are just tearing them up and its a pain to keep removing and replacing the trailer hook.

[crawdadking]

Don't use one on 1/4 oz or less, but everything else gets one. Caught too many on the trailer hook.

[ol man river]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by bilgerat &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">

I always put the trailer hook on, then placed a chunk of tubing on afterwards. This allows the trailer to swing free and self center.

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if youre going to use a trailer hook, this is the best way to rig it...the trouble is, with it swinging free, it seems to snag everything in sight..including your finger

ive simply caught too many fish on the main hook , even when using a trailer..when they want it- they want it....

one thing to consider, you actually have to let the fish 'suck in ' a spinnerbait, ( kind of like a crankbait) to insure a good hookup...snatching on the first feel is a sure way to miss em....

[SoonerFan]

I'll jump in with the never use them crowd. If I'm fishing a spinnerbait, I'm fishing in cover and the fish are looking up and I want to get as close to the cover...usually tree stumps in my case, and I don't want an extra hook fowling things up...and if they are hitting a spinnerbait, they'll get it on the single hook. Short-strikers tell you a different story.

If the water is wide open then I'd throw something with more hooks on it like a trap or a crankbait.