Drop-Shotting - How many hooks allowed - 4?

[MSBruno]

Looking to run 2 different worms on my drop shot, 12" apart, different colours and sizes. From what I read on the regs, 4 hooks max, right?

 

ANyone else have luck on this? Ideas?

[Cudz]

Looking to run 2 different worms on my drop shot, 12" apart, different colours and sizes. From what I read on the regs, 4 hooks max, right?

 

ANyone else have luck on this? Ideas?

yes 4 hooks is allowed

[Guest gbfisher]

if yer usin bait..Don't use trebles...

[Beans]

Yep...4 hooks only...

 

Dawg gave me a couple of sabiki rigs with 6 hooks so I have to cut 2 off...top 2 or bottom 2...decisions...decisions...why does life have to be so damn complicated...

[charlesn]

If you're going to use multiple hooks on a drop shot rig, be careful as a palomar knot (generally the knot used to tie on the hook of a drop shot rig) is not intended to be stressed from the tag end of the line. That's why weights are often clipped on the end so that in a snag situation, you lose the weight and not the whole rig. I have tried double rigs for small fish like perch, but I really did not find any more effectiveness compared to a single hook. For smallmouth, I wouldn't try it because if you hook up a fish of a lifetime on the bottom hook, you're trusting a knot partway up the line that was not intended for that purpose.

 

Just my experience with it.

 

Charles

[steverowbotham]

If you're going to use multiple hooks on a drop shot rig, be careful as a palomar knot (generally the knot used to tie on the hook of a drop shot rig) is not intended to be stressed from the tag end of the line. That's why weights are often clipped on the end so that in a snag situation, you lose the weight and not the whole rig. I have tried double rigs for small fish like perch, but I really did not find any more effectiveness compared to a single hook. For smallmouth, I wouldn't try it because if you hook up a fish of a lifetime on the bottom hook, you're trusting a knot partway up the line that was not intended for that purpose.

 

Just my experience with it.

 

Charles

 

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