Swapping out hooks from 1 lure to another.

[throttleplate]

Instead of buying new treble hooks for my jitterbug lure i just took them and the rings off the whopper plopper. I put the rings and trebles on the jitterbug because the original hooks are installed on the hook keepers in a way that there is really no side to side and front to back swinging movement of the hooks.

 

I also added some maibou flashing for the heck of it using shrink tubeing to secure it on the hook. I have a plan to use the jitterbug on the river wading for smallmouth.

[Basser2021]

Those jitterbugs work great and are extremely underrated!

[GreenPig]

2 hours ago, Basser2021 said:

Those jitterbugs work great and are extremely underrated!

Black Musky Jitterbug at night is ?. 

[Deleted account]

I borrow hooks from Paul to put on Peter all the time. FYI, I fished the jitterbug a lot recently with the cicada bloom, and I made many mods, among them adding hair and feathers to the hooks, and found that anything I did only made the catching worse. A slight bend of the lip and tie, and better hooks was the ticket.

[cyclops2]

I have never bought new rings or trebles.  Save them from lures being trashed.  Why not.

[Deleted account]

22 minutes ago, cyclops2 said:

Save them from lures being trashed. 

Organ donors.

[throttleplate]

On 2/26/2022 at 6:26 AM, Deleted account said:

A slight bend of the lip and tie,

hi deleted, what did you do to the lip to make it work better for you?

[Deleted account]

2 minutes ago, throttleplate said:

hi deleted, what did you do to the lip to make it work better for you?

I closed the ears down (forward) a touch, making one slightly more cupped than the other, then I "polish" the eye rivet thing so that it is very free, then finally bent the tab where it enters the lip up a tad. I like working it with a high tip keeping the line out of the water. When it gets into a rhythm, it walks and gurgles almost on it's own.