Are trailing hook legal ?

[rzep]

Are double hook spinners or single with trailing one legal in Ontario.. ? Recall reading something while back ..

[deadhead1]

I use trailers on a jig for walleye when they are stealing minnows so I hope the are legal! As far as I know you are allowed two or maybe even three hooks per rig, same as two hooks that would be on a plug.

[Ricky Spanish]

You can have up to three hooks on one lure/line in the Kenora area of ON. It may be different elsewhere. Double ten buck tails usually have two treble hooks, and large cranks usually have three trebles, so I don't think a trailer hook or a stinger would be any different.

[deadhead1]

I use trailers on a jig for walleye when they are stealing minnows so I hope the are legal! As far as I know you are allowed two or maybe even three hooks per rig, same as two hooks that would be on a plug. Update----Ontario regs say "A fishing lure must not have more than four four hooks attached"

[rzep]

Thanks for the info

[rzep]

Follow up.....

When would you use single trailing hook as opposed to treble one?

Just personal preference or more to it?

[The tank]

Not sure how old my book is but it reads 4 hooks on one line in Ontario. We haven't used trailing hooks for 20 years but when we did we had a small treble on jigs and minnow and single #4 on worm harness when using worms. Now days I don't use any. If I buy a spinner harness with 2 hooks I cut the back one off and save it. If you don't cut it off a snot rockets going to bite it off sooner or later.