Micro Bait Hooks

The hooks that we use a majority of the time are the typical small hook with the painted lead towards the top, a typical ice fishing hook. For sizes we will generally use a 1/32 ounce for most of our applications with these micro plastics, but, that is when there is a good bite going on and when those brutal cold fronts come through that is when we will down size to a 1/64 ounce or lighter if we can find a lighter weight. If we are fishing deeper water where it is taking to long to get the bait down to the fish, then put a small split shot 14 inches above the bait. Threading the micro plastics onto the hooks is going to be either of a personnel choice or experiment and see what the fish are looking for and they will basically tell you what they want. We usually thread the bait up and along the shaft of the hook to the head as far as it will go, but don’t use this all the time as there will be times that they want the bait hooked upside down, through the middle or actually a piece of a bait works as well to. It comes down to what the fish are looking for and by trying different rigging setups an angler will find what these fish are looking for.

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