Slow death rigs

Too lazy to dig around and find my password so I will just ask it as an anonymous poster..........

I just picked up some slow death hooks to monkey around with. The appraoch looks interesting - and I see good results that other guys have had with them. My question to you guys that have used this method a lot..... Have you had any results as far as big fish with it? I tend to pull a lot of crank baits and bottom bouncer/spinner/crawlers and have a lot of confidence in putting big fish in the boat with those methods, so this new method has me curious.......

Anybody hanging any hawgs with the slow death rigs?


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[walleyedmike]

I found them to work well in post frontal conditions; nothing too fast or fancy, maybe just 1 bead ahead of the hook.

They also produced well up on LOTW on a deep water bite using 3" florescent pink worms. Orange worked too, but not as well as the pink.

And no, I am not joking! It works!

[jopes]

Today was the first time I really used them, but I bought the new Matuzo bait rollers, to my with them sitting next to a Slow Death Hook the bends seem to be a bit bigger.

I had one chartuse bead in front of the hook, I was pulling a single rig through places were boats had 2-4 lines out pulling regular harness's and I would get a hook up and they would be lucky to have one out of 4 rigs.

I was using a whole crawler and trolling faster than what they say to do @ 1.5mph. I do not know if that was the true difference or not. Water temps were 62-64 degrees.

[PTShad]

I started using them last year and have put some decent fish in the boat with them. Mind you decent in KS is 5-6lbs+ (at least to me). There have been days where it seemed to be the preference of the smaller fish and the larger fish wanted the spinner harness, but overall its a constant contributor to the fish numbers.

[MN_Moose]

Originally Posted by walleyedmike

produced well up on LOTW on a deep water bite using 3" florescent pink worms.

were those 3" florescent pink worms a Gulp worm? Or simple plastic?

[ducker]

Leeches have been working well with the slow death rigs also.

[REW]

In addition, lots of folks have been using very larger spinners in front of the slow death hooks to give a secondary pulse to the fish.

Try it both ways and use the method that works best for the fish and depth that you are targeting.

REW

[eriksat1]

I bought some #2 hooks last week haven't tried them yet. How do you hook a leech on it? thread it on like a crawler? I have a pound of leeches, I need to go night crawler hunting. I'm not paying $2.50 - $3.00 per dozen for crawlers.

[REW]

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