spinnerbait stingers

[James W]

can anyone shed some light on attaching a stinger hook/treble on a spinner baits..any pros and cons you care to share...thanx:)

[Jeremy]

You can buy gamakatsu spinnerbait trailer hooks in a variety of hook sizes. They come with a plastic tube in pack. All you have to do is cut a piece of tube, slip trailer hook on spinnerbait hook and push the tube long ways on spinnerbait hook. Its as simple as that. If you pick up a pack you will notice that the hook eye is bigger that a stand hook. They work good on slugs too. Hopefully I explained it good enough

[James W]

yeah mate thanx heaps!...so the tubing slips over the hook of the spinner bait ok hey?..does it affect the hooking ability of the spinnerbait hook itself?

thanx again mate:)

[Jeremy]

You flatten the tube and push the hook through the side of the tube.

[Tim a]

yeah the gamas are awsome, thats all I've used tho, On my vortex I've never changed the stinger, been about 6 months now, still fricking sharp and caught around 60 fish or more.

[James W]

Jeremy wrote:

You flatten the tube and push the hook through the side of the tube.

...gottcha..thanx again...

[Dinodadog]

Jimmy a cheaper way is to use Mustad salt water 34007 in a pack of 50. You mentioned putting a treble stinger on, unless you intend to keep your bait in mid water forget it. However if you are casting to a suspended school from a boat, some people put the stinger face down.

Dino

[James W]

ok dino..thanx 4 that mate:)

[MichaelJ]

sorry for replying in old thread but could i get small peice of wire make small loop with it put that over main hook and other end could i make small loop that joins to other hook?

[James W]

whatnow- mate i have seen that done before too....soihave all my spinnerbaits rigged with stingers now..just gotta use the things:blush:

[MichaelJ]

lol thanks jimmybob i made em yesterday to doesnt look like it will stuff it up at all

[blue_mako]

James: With the Gamakatsu Single Stingers, cut a piece of tubing no more then half a centimeter and thread it over the eye of the Single Stinger Hook so you have the tube covering the eye of the stinger on both sides.

Then push the stinger hook onto the Spinnerbait Hook so that the tubing and the eye of the Gama Single Stinger Hook are past the barb. That way the Stinger will sit straight and parallel to the Spinnerbait Hook and won't drop down. If you have it dropping down it snags up a lot easier and doesn't always just bump over snags.

I don't use Trebles as Stingers as I have found they tangle up the skirt.

Though if a skirt on a Spinnerbait starts to get worn I usually take it off and put a 3inch Atomic Paddle Tail on the Spinnerbait Hook. I then get a Treble that has the eye set opposite to one of the Treble Hooks. Then put the tubing over the eye and thread it on the Spinnerbait Hook and bury one of the Treble Hooks into the Plastic so that 2 Hooks are still well and truly exposed.

I caught 2 58cm Yellowbelly in 2 trips doing this at North Pine about 20m from each other. So I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same fish each session. He didn't learn his lesson though.

I will try and post up some pictures soon of what I'm talking about .

Troy

OK, here's a picture of a Single Stinger by Gamakatsu. It's hard to see but there is a piece of tubing over the eye of the Stinger.

[img size=146]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Single_Stinger_Hook_with_Tubing.JPG

[blue_mako]

Take that Stinger in the above pic and thread it over the Spinnerbait Hook .

Troy

[img size=251]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Spinnerbait_with_Single_Stinger.JPG

[blue_mako]

If you have a good quality Graphite Rod you will be able to feel the blades of the SB working quite easily with a slow roll.

A lot of the time Bass will be interested in looking but not eating the bait so they will come up and swipe at it. Quite often you will feel the blades miss a beat and what feels like a small hit but is just the fish pushing water towards the SB with its tail as it turns and bolts away.

This is when I add a size 2 Single Stinger to the first Size 1 Single Stinger. You will often hook them around the head when you do this and I have hooked one in the tail before, obviously as it has gone to swim away the 2nd stinger has grabbed the tail.

Troy

[img size=165]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Spinnerbait_with_2_Single_Stingers2.JPG

[blue_mako]

I don't have any Spinnerbaits with the skirt removed left as I lost my last one to a brickage because they work so well . So I have just used a Spinnerbait with the skirt instead to improvise which I wouldn't normally do as the Trebles wreck the skirt.

I used to use a Soft Plastic Trailer often with SB's with a Single Stinger placed on top. But I found it reduces casting distance quite a bit and North Pine is all about distance from the bank. So I just use a Standard SB now.

So just imaging this picture as a Spinnerbait without the skirt with a SP Trailer and Treble Stinger in place of it. I still use the tubing over the eye of the Treble for a bit of reassurance it won't come off .

Troy

[img size=142]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Spinnerbait_with_Plastic_and_Treble_Stinger.JPG

[blue_mako]

I used a combination of all 3 of these rigs to get the 90 odd Bass and 6 Yellowbelly in the last 3 sessions I have been to North Pine. I have also caught a few on a Standard SB with just the Blades and Head of the lure, no additives.

Which reminds me I finally caught a tagged Bass on Saturday so will post up information and pics once I get it. I will also post up pics of the big Yellows once I get them. But I don't think that will be for a few weeks.

Hope this helps .

Troy [img size=313]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Spinnerbait_Rigs.JPG

[pcsolutionman]

Good stuff troy im sure it will help a few out karma to ya

Lee

[Dan23]

Just came across this thread whilst looking for tips on Spinnerbaits. Some great info in here so I figured it was worth a bump.

[fishyman]

damnit

i knew i forgot something today

i went to mossops after my english exam and got some things

damnit, i need some stingers lol

ah well another trip is warranted

[loomis]

I think (havent actually bought a pack for ages) the stinger hooks I use are the Gamakatsu Siwash Hooks. But they could be the hooks that were mentioned earlier in the thread.

Another quick and easy (cheap too) way to ensure the stinger stays on is to simply get a holepunch and a milk bottle. Punch out the small rounds bits of milk bottle and slip that over the spinnerbait hook after you fit the stinger. I have been doing it for years now and have never had to replace one.

As for running the stinger hook downwards...I think the snag rate would increase as the stinger wouldnt allow for the lure to bounce/ride over the snags. Would become very frustrating, very quickly.

[Dinodadog]

That last Idea with the hook downwards was for open water,you must of missed this

[Feral]

I'm using the hooks Dino recommended. About $7 for a pack of 50 from Mo Tackle.

Just use my "ganging pliers" to open the eye, slip it over and squeeze it shut.

For open water I carry a pack of No 8 trebles, just drop it straight over the hook. Occasionally one will fall off while casting, but as long as you keep pressure on you wont loose the hook with a fish on.