Love your style Greg. Great shots Mate
3rd degree, 1 up and 1 down, unless tooth picked, swim horizontal and have more chance of making your lure spiral leading to line twist. Pakula has all the underwater video. A lot of SCGFC guys just run a double twist leader like I think Greg is getting at. You lose a few hoos to snip offs but they are easy to rig and you only lose a $0.50 hook every now and again. There is also less corrosion of the chemical sharp hooks if you are using them as there is less dissimalar metals in the rig. Mackmauler proved that many times with his variation on it with rubber bands and single hooks. You still get a few hoo but they are more flexible for the billies. I prefer them rigged on a bit of 450lb wire under the skirt for the wahoo on a shackle rig though I use split rings as they are cheaper than Ds like the Pitbull lure boys use. In wahoo territory like Hutchies I am happy to run all wire.
Love your style Greg. Great shots Mate
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Mark I used wire on the hard bodies and the skirts are mono to the skirt head with d shackle wire hook rigs after that. I do run some skirts that are full mono with a single hook for the billies.
Yeah misread your numbers Wayne. Nothing wrong with that just need to young fella to wind harder lol.
hahaha yeah steve I use to do heaps of it but now more so when the billie's, wahoo etc are in good numbers are off brisbane.
Jim it's certainly one of those points that everyone has their own opinion about. I think everyone has been down the same path and probably over thought it a hundred times. Some years I have prefered doubles while others I end up going back to singles. I think for me personally the singles have come out in front so far. As Smithy said the 1 up 1 down can cause the lure to spin and after a couple hours of trolling one the other day I notcied twist in the leader. The double twist leader with the single is fast and simple to rig and allows for good movement. Most of all it produces fish but a risky rig to use when wahoo are around. With hoo around at the moment I run the pushers with some wire on a shackle rig just to be cautious.
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Greg
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