Replacing Treble Hooks on Spoons

[Snidley]

If you hooks are chrome as many spoons are try a red sharpie to make them red. It works well as Sharpies are waterproof. You do have to re apply from time to time especially if you are catching fish but it definitly works. Another thing i started doing this year with my casting spoons is trying on some yarn or even cotton batton to my hooks(all Siwash for me) and then adding some Mikes Glow scent Herring oil, WD-40, Yum Shad scent or even Oil of Anise to the yarn. I found the oil smell sticks well to the material and at least with casting spoons the action is not negatively effected. I also do the same thing for the rear treble hook on a J-13 that I cast at night for Salmon. I even go so far as to strip the blue top coat from a blue and white J-13 so that it is white all over and then i add glow tape punched out in little circles with a ticket punch from the dollar store. I add a small dot of pink glow paint to each glow dot and some pink yarn to the rear treble. Squirt with scent and you are ready to go for night/dawn/dusk Salmon fishing. The end result looks like a clown but it works excedingly well not only in the dark but also in stained water. Regards Snidley

[Caseys Dream]

Hey WIG, that is awesome you will be going for Salmonids this year, keep us all posted how you do. You'll be a down riggin, dipsey divin', stackin' fool like the rest of us the Great Lakes forum.

CD