Trailer Hook Stops

Swede · August 27, 2006, 09:11:05 PM

Learned this one today - my buddy Vern uses a hole punch on a plastic milk jug. He takes the little circles and uses them as hook stoppers for trailer hooks versus the clear rubber tubing. Works great and great idea I thought.

laluv2fish · April 05, 2007, 05:56:40 PM

Great idea!

I use my old plastics: worms, lizards, flukes, and craws. I have a bag of them that I've caught fish on and their torn up from setting the hook. I just tear a piece off and place it on the hook. The red ones work really well.

BIG PAPA · April 05, 2007, 05:59:29 PM

Quote from: Swede on August 27, 2006, 09:11:05 PM
Learned this one today - my buddy Vern uses a hole punch on a plastic milk jug. He takes the little circles and uses them as hook stoppers for trailer hooks versus the clear rubber tubing. Works great and great idea I thought.

Yep best method I have found , been using them for about 30 years

clubber · April 05, 2007, 06:27:00 PM

That's what I use too, but I punch mine out of the plastic tops of coffee cans.

Stump bumper · April 05, 2007, 08:05:08 PM

O.K. I'm a little confused $:-\$ Do you put the circles behind the trailer hook? I have always used tubing over the eye of the hook the placed the trailer on the spinner bait hook. Have I been wasting time with this method?

WES · April 05, 2007, 09:01:13 PM

nope you are doing it right they just push the spinnerbait hook through the little plastic circles after they put the trailer hook on, instead of the little rubberband tubing.

Bassinkorea · April 05, 2007, 09:08:59 PM

That IS a good tip, I'll definatly give this one a go.

theskinnyde · April 17, 2007, 11:40:34 PM

Wow alot of these techniques i had never even thought of! Kewlll

BASSINNMS · April 18, 2007, 01:05:23 PM

My trailor hooks never stay on so i am going to have to try that... I have had an old red t shirt before though and cut a piece of it off and put it on there. It worked sometimes... i like the worm idea.

Wildcat26 · April 18, 2007, 02:26:45 PM

I cut plastic straws into little pieces. Put the eye of the trailer hook in the straw then push the lure hook through the straw and the trailer eye. Works great for me.

cable guy · April 18, 2007, 04:56:29 PM

best thing i have ysed is old aquarium tubing, slide the trailerhook on then slide it right behind it, the hooks is free to move a bit, and its always a red trailer hook,thats my 2 cents, if you keep the trailer in a fixed position you will hand up mre, because it stands stright out, let it dangle