First try with slow death

[Kettle]

These hooks are unreal, they should market them to bass fisherman instead of walleye fisherman, tried two lakes tonight, both with below average numbers of largemouth in them and I have never caught so many bass in six hours in my life, 2 over 20'' it was incredible

Kettle

[Toba]

Okay, I don't get out as much as I would like, but what exactly is slow death? Is it a special hook on a rig. Just wondering.

[LMITOUT]

Here is a good discussion on this tactic in the Walleye Forum: Slow Death

[Zelmsdawg]

I've actually caught more pike on them then anything else so far...go figure

[buzbunni]

These hooks are unreal, they should market them to bass fisherman instead of walleye fisherman, tried two lakes tonight, both with below average numbers of largemouth in them and I have never caught so many bass in six hours in my life, 2 over 20'' it was incredible

Kettle

Were you trolling for walleye and caught bass instead?

Curious to know what presentation you were using.

[curtistodd]

Ive had the white bass really hit them hard and frequent.

[Kettle]

Yea trolling in 18'-22' of water, I have a 30lbs thrust minnnkota on a 14' boat and was trolling at speed level one, the action they put off is great. I bought some SPRO swivels and put some high speed gear lube on the swivel so they were nice and loose.

Kettle

[Comit 2]

The hooks are cheep enough but if you want to add color just peg the clevis on a spinner rig. You’ll get just about the same action. Something tells me I could be reverse engineering here. I know in the past I have caught Walleyes on spinner rig that were all tangled and twisted.

Barrel roll?

[IamZombie]

I bought a package of 3 at fleet farm, already to go with swivel and line.

[Stick in Mud]

I recently started using SD hooks, and I caught some walleyes on them (in a lake void of largmeouth bass). That being said, I'm excited to go out and try them on a deep weedline with lots of different species hanging around...nice to know the largies will take them too. Thanks for sharing !

[Maverick]

I just picked up a couple of packs of these hooks. I tied them to trilene xt 8lb and then to a swivel. Went to a favorite spot and immediately caught 3 eyes. Then they shut down, went to another spot and got 2 right away. Next day I took my neighbor out and we caught 5 pretty quickly. Now for the rest of the story. I tried leeches and lindy rigs, worms on a harness with a bottom bouncer, worm on a single hook and lindy rig. I caught absolutely nothing on anything but the Slow Death. In addition, we were catching very large blue gills on them.

I bought both #2 and #4. I like the 2's best. Stringing the worm on the larger hook was easier and it didn't seem to hurt our success.

I wish I would have known about this in June.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

I'm afraid the sunnies will peck the crawler off. Lots of those little buggers where I fish.

[Jim Hudson]

To avoid being "pecked off" by other fishes - try the Berkley Gulp 3" Fry with the hook, size 2.. Also, put a bit more bend into the hook to make the artifical spin like a real crawler would. Works good..

[JbuZZo]

I just bought 2 packs of these last week and will be trying them up at Leech Lake at the end of Sept. Can't wait...

Has anyone tried to make a spinner w/ these or do they not perform as well when there are beads and blades on them? I made about 4 of various lengths and bead/blade configurations. I am going to experiment with them around the DL area to get a feel for that action, etc...before the Leech trip at the end of Sept. and the LOW trip the 3rd week of Oct.

You you guys just mainly drift em' with nothing else? From reading up they don't maintain their action above 1mph...?

Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreicated.

thanks!

[amateurfishing]

just tried for first time this am, caught medium feisty perch & small largemouth with live crawlers, 2 hits on 20 casts then completely dead, had a probem with live crawler always falling off #4 hook, that normal? anyone put split shots or slip weights on for more depth? curious

[harvey lee]

Hit a lake today with my nephew with plans of pulling cranks in the shallows along the first break and the weedline. Then tried pulling leadcore in 22fow with cranks and not a bite.

No luck at all so I rigged up one of my slow death rigs and my nephew and I caught 17 eyes in 22 to 28 fow.

Seems everything was deeper today probably due to the cool front.

[Maverick]

just tried for first time this am, caught medium feisty perch & small largemouth with live crawlers, 2 hits on 20 casts then completely dead, had a probem with live crawler always falling off #4 hook, that normal? anyone put split shots or slip weights on for more depth? curious

I just started using them so I am by no means an expert, but I don't see how a crawler could just fall off the hook. Unless, you didn't string it on to the hook correctly. The last step is to push the hook through the collar and then leave a little dangling behind the hook.

[amateurfishing]

watched a u tube video linked to info above i think, showed placing crawler on end of hook and working it all way to eye of hook and let last 2 inches dangle of hook end correct?

[Tator2k]

Tried these for the first time on Pool 4 this weekend. Getting the crawler on is a PITA but I never said one fall off that wasn't in something's mouth.

[IamZombie]

watched a u tube video linked to info above i think, showed placing crawler on end of hook and working it all way to eye of hook and let last 2 inches dangle of hook end correct?

kind of.

This guy explains it well.

[amateurfishing]

thx, had it close but not perfect, need to remember go over eye of hook & snip crawler off little bit

[JbuZZo]

perfect explaination from the vid. thanks!