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Originally Posted by Hilgy
Awesome info thanks guys. I have started rigging up multiple rods with different stuff to to make switching easier. I’m going to try the spoon with a treble 8” below. I’ve never tried that. Keep the tips coming guys I appreciate it all.
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I use the northlands Buck-Shot rattle spoon in Perch 3/4 oz usually, but I have all the sizes. Smallest work for perch.
https://shop.northlandtackle.com/spo...-rattle-spoon/
Anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of line between treble and spoon, usually 6. They have ones that glow, and I bring my head lamp and a flashlight. Ill put one spoon in a slot in the tackle box, White - Glow side up and the small bright flashlight over the slot.
If I only want to give the one I have on my line a glow boost, Ill hold it up to my headlamp. You can also use your phones light or flash.
Use Fluorocarbon line between and keep the minnow a few inches off bottom, or occasionally they want it right on bottom. Check the line here and there and after every Pike.
The only issue with these is storing them. I keep a few rigged up and put them in pill bottles, a tall thin one for each. At the end of my braid mainline I have a snap swivel. And I now tie up a few treble + 8 inch lines with a snap swivel also. So if I need to switch hooks either to replace or up-down size, its quick and easy.
A Pro-Staffer gave me that trick years ago, and its my most often used lure. The spoon banging the bottom and kicking up silt gets their attention. Then you lift the rig so the minnow / hook is near bottom, and the glittering and glowing spoon is almost a foot off bottom like a beacon.
If you watch the spoon banging on camera, it might look like a fry is attacking a near dead minnow off the bottom. That and the silt give it a Frenzy look. Again, maybe I think too deep while staring at a screen, flasher or hole. lol.
The snap swivel at the end of the mainline, is almost as quick and easy as grabbing another rod. I dont store rods with lures, so I have to set them up anyways, which means by just switching leader / lure rigs Im not doing extra work. Yet I sometimes have a second rod with say a crankbait if Im switching often, or Im out in the cold.