How To Get Trailer Hooks To Stay On?

[mattk22]

so I have some spinner baits without trailer hooks, and want to put some on. But, the tubing that comes with the trailer hooks are still too big on the main hook and come off. Is there another tactic I can use to keep the trailer hooks on?

[Goose52]

That small tubing - you cut off a little piece and pierce the hook sideways through the tubing...

I've personally had poor luck with the tubing anyway. I picked up this tip someplace - take a paper hole punch and punch out a bunch of discs from the plastic lid of a coffee container. Put the trailer hook on the bait and carefully (watch your fingers!) pierce the center of the disc with the spinnerbait hook and you're good to go!

[tholmes]

That small tubing - you cut off a little piece and pierce the hook sideways through the tubing...

I've personally had poor luck with the tubing anyway. I picked up this tip someplace - take a paper hole punch and punch out a bunch of discs from the plastic lid of a coffee container. Put the trailer hook on the bait and carefully (watch your fingers!) pierce the center of the disc with the spinnerbait hook and you're good to go!

I've used the same technique, but using an old inner tube to make small rubber discs. Works like a champ!

Tom

[bleedingshrimp]

In a pinch, those damaged rubber baits that can no longer be texas rigged are good. A tiny piece and stick the main hook through it and down to the bend will keep the trailers from backing off. As a last resort if you only have a few trailer hooks is to take the tubing, run it over the eye of the trailer hook so the entire eye has tube around it, then run your main hook through both tube and eye of trailer hook. This method is very secure but you sacrifice the ability to have the trailer hook move freely.

[BradH]

take the tubing, run it over the eye of the trailer hook so the entire eye has tube around it, then run your main hook through both tube and eye of trailer hook. This method is very secure but you sacrifice the ability to have the trailer hook move freely.

That's how I do it. I like the trailer not moving freely. That way I can drag it over timber without the trailer getting snagged as often.

[bleedingshrimp]

That's how I do it. I like the trailer not moving freely. That way I can drag it over timber without the trailer getting snagged as often.

Thats a good point too. Sometimes you don't want alot of movement out of your trailer hook.

[Marty]

so I have some spinner baits without trailer hooks, and want to put some on. But, the tubing that comes with the trailer hooks are still too big on the main hook and come off. Is there another tactic I can use to keep the trailer hooks on?

Are you just slipping a piece of tubing through the hook? Assuming you're using hooks with a barb, piercing the tubing (as mentioned above) past the barb will keep the trailer hook from coming off.