Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

Anyone ever fish multiple hooks on a drop shot rig to see what depth is best or what bait is best?  Is this legal?  Not talking about a jig for the weight, but two hooks - one low and one high.

I have played around with it.  Didn't do any better with it.  One hook works fine for me.

I've tried lots of variations. Overall it didn't make a difference many times with two hooks above the weight. It didn't seem to increase my success very often and I got no real clear preference enough times to figure anything serious out.

You can use up to 6 hooks in Michigan at a time. I've never tried more than two on things like this, and like double fluke rigs, which I also like once in a while.

I got a much more clear answer more often when I used a jig on the bottom in lieu of a weight only. I found on many days where either the bottom lure or the suspended lure was hit way more often.

An issue I had though more than enough to make me leery of using this in actual tournaments back when I was fishing a bunch is that I had break offs. I really did not like it when I'd hook a good smallmouth on the bottom lure, and then see a smaller one slam into the suspended lure while the line was taut, snapping off both fish! I got them in quite often including some fairly decent doubles a few times. But the risk of breaking off goes up quite a bit doing this with non-superline.

Superline you need to make sure you tie good knots that won't easily slip. I always tied an overhand knot in the end of my tag end line as one more stop against slipping all the way off. You could almost call it a superstition... but I do it all the time.

I will say... it really messes with your competition around you when they see you landing two keepers at a time! ;D Sometime, probably the competitive drive multiple baits instills, I'd catch two while boats nearby weren't catching anything!! :o More often though I would only catch one bass or catch a good one and a small one. It is fun to try though.

I haven't done it in awhile but I used to often use a sliding jig and pig instead of a sinker for my Carolina Rigs. That! can be fun! I caught doubles a number of times on a jig and pig - Texas-rigged lizard/creature bait combination. I don't think I will ever forget two chunker largemouths on Lake Ovid that jumped together, hit the end of the short leader and bounced off each other!!! I laughed so hard I almost lost them!! :D Almost seems like gluttony... but those are some of the real good times that make up for those other days...  ::)

Yes... Catching doubles is common when fish are grouped up... Only takes 1/2 the time to catch a limit.  ;D