Weighted Swimbait Hooks...

[lecisnith]

Anyone use these for anything other than hollow body swimbaits? I've been messing with rigging them on senkos and solid nosed flipping tubes during snowmaggeddon. Seems like pearl senkos would be good and looks very natural on a 4.5" tube.

[Joedodge]

I fish them on gambler ez swimmer swim baits they work great. Never thought about a senko

[doyle8218]

I use them on:

 

Keitech Swing Impact FAT 

Strike King Rage Tail DB Structure Bug 

Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver

Strike King Rage Cut R Worm

 

Just to mention my favorites.

[Teal]

Been using lighter ones on trick worms for years.

[Joedodge]

Whys the advantage I swimming a truck work or dinger on a weighted swim bait hook? Just a faster drop?

[papajoe222]

I've tried them on just about every plastic I own. The give the bait a different look on the fall and work well with action tail worms, Senko style worms and bigger grubs. They also keep the bait moving belly down through the water as some big action plastics roll on their side or twist when worked fast. 

[Choporoz]

I used to throw nearly all my plastics on Texas rigs.  Last year, I tried weighted hooks almost every time that I would have used T-rig in the past.  I favor the weighted hook over T-rig probably 2-1 now.  Any worms, flukes, beavers, creatures, paddle tails.  However, once I discovered the swinging jighead, I used that for most beaver/creature presentations.

[fisherrw]

I use vmc 1/8 ounce weighted for 5 in swimbaits.

[Jaderose]

Check out the VMC Drop Dead hooks for this.  I put a Culprit Fat Max (I like Pumpkin Seed) on these and it's just deadly.  They glide through the water and then flutter down horizontally on the pause.  For me a perfect combo.

[WIGuide]

I used them all the time with the Big Bite Baits Cane Thumpers.

[Kyle46N]

I used them all the time with the Big Bite Baits Cane Thumpers.

 

Love it.  Caught a big bag my last day on the Potomac last fall with this same setup.   Fishing in a shallow creek that was more like a 2 foot deep flat, with a narrow 3 foot creek channel running through it.  Just keep criss crossing the channel with that bad boy, and that's where the big fish were.   Lots of 4 pounders.   Then a front hit, and that was the end of the shallow bite for 2014.   Can't wait to throw it again this spring. 

[WIGuide]

Love it.  Caught a big bag my last day on the Potomac last fall with this same setup.   Fishing in a shallow creek that was more like a 2 foot deep flat, with a narrow 3 foot creek channel running through it.  Just keep criss crossing the channel with that bad boy, and that's where the big fish were.   Lots of 4 pounders.   Then a front hit, and that was the end of the shallow bite for 2014.   Can't wait to throw it again this spring. 

They're a pretty good bait all year long! You can really tear them up in the spring though. If you have the patients, they work well out deeper if you slow roll them. It might be easier to use them on a jig head that way, but they work on the weighted hook too. 

[ww2farmer]

I like the VMC "drop dead" hooks for fluke style baits, and their weighted swimbait hooks for swimbaits. I can't remember the last time I fished either type of bait WITHOUT a weighted hook.