Single hooks for Spoons

[bigfisherman]

I have the same problem everyone else does boxes full of baits that I have to cram them in to get them to fit enough baits in the boxes so you don't have to bring 37 boxes of stuff with ya. I used some of the salmon steelhead spoons with single hooks this past summer with good results. I am wondering if anyone has used single hooks on their walleye spoons. I think it would be much nicer for releasing fish as well as better for the fish. I could also keep them in plastic bag wallets that they have for using for rubber baits like tubes or worms. I just orded a bunch of vmc siwash hooks for in size 1 and 1/0 to try this.

Just curious if any one has done this and if so then what hook did you use with each size spoon.

[alex-v]

I am wondering if anyone has used single hooks on their walleye spoons.
The lightweight trolling spoons used by many wireliners come with the single hook instead of a treble. Not all of them but it does seem to be running on a 50/50 ratio.

[Gone Fishing]

I have a good number of Walleye spoons with single hooks. The only down side is when I run my big planner boards. When the line pulls off the release and you allow the fish to drop back to the middle of your spread, I do lose fish with that extended time with slack in the line. If you get past that and get pressure on the fish, they normally end up in the boat. Salmon and Steelhead are fast enough to keep that slack line to a minimum but that isn’t the case with Walleye. With that said, the problem really doesn’t go away with trebles.

[FISH]

i like single hooks,
they won't get tangled in the net( not like trebles will)
you get a deeper, stronger hookset. all we used on trolling spoons was the long shanked single hook, i think in 1/0... we never had a problem with losing fish, but we used rubberbands on our planer boards, so that cuts down on the slack in the line quite a bit.

[bigfisherman]

Thanks for the info.

I am not too concerned with losing a few fish just means one less to have to reel in. The easier storage, less damage to the fish, and the not getting tangled in the net are worth a few that may get off before I get them in in my mind. I just want to make sure I have a big enough hook but one that isn't going to kill the action.

What size hook are you guys using on the 2 3/8" sppons? What about the 2 5/8" spoons?