When I fish for striper or sandbass I try to throw stuff with a single hook to make fish removal easier for me and easier on the fish.

However, I recently found some striper shallow on Texoma and they did not want flukes, coho's, wildeyes or sassy shads. They did want rattletraps though. I always cut off one hook on each treble and this day was the same but I was having more trouble than usual removing fish.

I have never cut off two hooks per treble, but was thinking about it. Anyone try this or simply remove the trebles and rig with single hooks?

Never tried it with a trap, but I always remove the treble hooks from my spoons and replace with a single hook. Works good.

Yes I have.

I used to do that fishing canals in Louisiana in a area call Lacassine Reserve. The trebles would get hung in the grass and liily pads a lot so I tried the single hook. The bass would pound that RattleTrap. I tried many hooks but found the type you put on Spinnerbaits as a trailer hook work great. Turn the hook on the back upward and the one on the bottom make sure the point of the hook is face down. I even tried it with out the bottom hook and its gave the bait a funny wobble and the bass tore it up!! They flutter down crazy without the bottom hook.

I don't where you fish but give it a try and who knows it might work on your lake.

I used the red tiger, all white, and blue chrome colors. Red was the best color choice for that system I fished. I think it looked like a crawfish and they like the action??

wonder if a weedless hook would work, one in front, one in back,..a weedless rattle-trap,...throw it right in the junk.

I rigged a frenzy last year with singles and when I got into the whites I switched to it and caught them as good as with trebles. It works, just hard to find the right hooks with a big enough eye in them so they swing freely.

Thanks for the ideas folks.

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good man

i might try rigging a weedless treble hook myself, because i cant fish regular rattle traps in the ponds near my house without having to remove pond scum from it after every cast. Worth a try!

On Treble hooks,Pushing in the barbs or filling off the barbs work great for me. Just keep tension on the line. Saves the trouble of replacing the hooks. Have not noticed a difference in missed fish. Saves on bandades and trips to the doc.