Fishing a jerkbait with one treble hook?

[FellowBasser]

Hey guys just caught a bass and had an unfortunate hook set were one of the two treble Hooks got caught in the fishes eye do you guys think it's okay if I fish a jerkbait with just one of the two treble Hooks  I don't want there other hook to swing around and have this happen again

[Bluebasser86]

The bait isn't going to suspend and it's not going to sit right in the water anymore if you do. 

Better to just smash down all the barbs so if you get the fish in a bad spot, the hooks can be removed easier. It's just something that's going to happen fishing them because they swipe at them so often. Fish are resilient though, a damaged eye hardly slows them down. 

[dsqui]

Try the katsuage ( i think i spelled that right) out barb hooks I think they remove easier but still keep the fish pinned very well.  The hooks found on vision 110's

[crypt]

been pinching my barbs for that reason and to get them out of my bodyparts for years.......................

[Crestliner2008]

The only hook in my entire arsenal that has a barb is my drop shot hook. I've crimped them down on all my other baits. Especially the trebles. And I'm starting to replace all the trebles with singles (i.e.: VMC In Line Hooks). These hooks work very well with blade baits and will probably perform better than any treble on all other hard baits as well.

 

Until I make the complete change over, all my treble lures are barbless. And, any with 3 trebles, I remove the center treble which is the primary culprit in fish eye damage. This action will change the buoyancy of some jerkbaits. Simple to alleviate with a twist or two of thin lead solder wire wrapped around the lead treble. I test all my jerkbaits anyway, because they will NOT suspend in every water temperature, regardless of all the media hype. The addition of solder to the shank of the treble, doesn't interfere with the stationary "wooble" these baits are known for, when suspending. JMO!

[rboat]

3 hours ago, Crestliner2008 said:

The only hook in my entire arsenal that has a barb is my drop shot hook. I've crimped them down on all my other baits. Especially the trebles. And I'm starting to replace all the trebles with singles (i.e.: VMC In Line Hooks). These hooks work very well with blade baits and will probably perform better than any treble on all other hard baits as well.

 

Until I make the complete change over, all my treble lures are barbless. And, any with 3 trebles, I remove the center treble which is the primary culprit in fish eye damage. This action will change the buoyancy of some jerkbaits. Simple to alleviate with a twist or two of thin lead solder wire wrapped around the lead treble. I test all my jerkbaits anyway, because they will NOT suspend in every water temperature, regardless of all the media hype. The addition of solder to the shank of the treble, doesn't interfere with the stationary "wooble" these baits are known for, when suspending. JMO!

I agree with this. If it has 3 trebles remove the middle one, otherwise smash barbs or go with barbless hooks.

[fishwizzard]

I have already moved all my perch/panfish lures from trebels to single hooks and I think by this time next year I will have all my bass ones as well.  I might end up just moving to barbless hooks on my jerkbaits if I can't get single hooks to suspend well enough, but I hope to make it work.  

 

This last fall I had a very bad moment when a very green stocker rainbow managed to pin himself, my hand, and my pant leg, all together in a snarl.  "Fortunately" the trout gave a mighty thrash and ripped the hook out of my hand before it got too worked in there, but the treble was so worked into my pants that I had to cut the hooks past the barb to get them out.  

 

I am very willing to miss the odd fish to help lower the odds of this happening again.  

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, Bunnielab said:

I have already moved all my perch/panfish lures from trebels to single hooks and I think by this time next year I will have all my bass ones as well.  I might end up just moving to barbless hooks on my jerkbaits if I can't get single hooks to suspend well enough, but I hope to make it work.  

 

This last fall I had a very bad moment when a very green stocker rainbow managed to pin himself, my hand, and my pant leg, all together in a snarl.  "Fortunately" the trout gave a mighty thrash and ripped the hook out of my hand before it got too worked in there, but the treble was so worked into my pants that I had to cut the hooks past the barb to get them out.  

 

I am very willing to miss the odd fish to help lower the odds of this happening again.  

Trout are the worst. Like trying to hold onto a squirming wet bar of soap. I had a brown bury a jerkbait treble in my finger but I got "lucky" like you did and it flopped again and ripped the hook back out. My dad caught a stocker rainbow on a brand new Megabass a couple years ago that buried the hook right next to and under his fingernail. Apparently those Katsuage hooks are hard to get out even in the ER. 

[fishwizzard]

Yeah, between the trout and the pickerel that are everywhere around here, I am becoming very anti-trebles.  The small ones (#6-2) also really seem to cause a ton of damage when a dink just smashes them. 

 

I am gonna pick up some jdm barbless trebles to try on my jerks, but I really wish manufactures would list the weight on the package so I just buy the right ones without a bunch of trial and error.