Berkley Slow Death Hooks

[scrotcaster]

Seen Berkley makes slow death hooks with a bait keeper barb,, these work any better for keeping real night crawlers on Vs. just regular hooks? Just curious and seeing if there worth the extra $ Thanks

 

[H82bogey]

Mustad also makes a hook with a bait keeper. I haven't used the Berkley, but the Mustad works great. Course I also use plastics and don't use real crawlers much.

 

[Rowdie]

Does the Berkley hooks have a better barb than the Mustad hooks?

 

[Vollmer]

I always leave a little stub of line on my knot, then run my worm up past the knot. Seems to hold quite well for me. An extra barb would not hurt a damn thing, though.

 

[Rowdie]

I mean the barb to hook the fish, the mustad barbs....well there is hardly a barb at all.

 

[Walleye_Chaser]

I use the soft plastic crawlers for the slow death hooks and have not seen ANY less bites. Plus, it stays on the hook much better and lasts WAY longer than a real crawler. They do make the shorter ones for this but I usually put a whole one on the hook and clip off the excess.

 

[eyexer]

Berkley has become synonymous with "junk"

 

[scrotcaster]

Berkley has become synonymous with "junk"

The limits i have caught with flickershads/minnows would disagree

 

[Kurtr]

Flickershad have cashed a few checks for me

 

[Rowdie]

They could put better hooks on them Flicker shads/minnows, but they do work/.

 

[eyexer]

but there's a reason they're so cheap lol

 

[Lungdeflator]

Why does it matter how much they are if they work?

 

[H82bogey]

I always have issued with the Flicker shad/minnows running straight. I understand how to tune a crank, but half the ones I buy don't just pull left or right, but actually just make a big circle they are so messed up. What is the trick to getting these things tuned properly?

 

[scrotcaster]

ive never had problem with that with the berkley cranks, only real problem childs for me to get tuned are the reef runners, but usually get them tuned up in short order.. are you tieing directly on, if so maybe try using a crank bait snap?, idk i've never had issues

 

[Rowdie]

I always have issued with the Flicker shad/minnows running straight. I understand how to tune a crank, but half the ones I buy don't just pull left or right, but actually just make a big circle they are so messed up. What is the trick to getting these things tuned properly?

How fast are you going??

 

[johnr]

How fast are you going??

Dude, I think he is parked.

 

[H82bogey]

How fast are you going??

usually 1.5-1.8mph. And yes, I use crank bait snaps.

 

[Rowdie]

I own 2 crank caddys full of flicker shads and 1 more full of flicker minnows. Rarely do I have to tune one. I've never had a new one so off it came out of the water. Usually when I have to, its after a snag or fish. I lost most of them during a theft last year and had to replace most my stuff. So Im not exaggerating when I say Ive probably have opened and run well over 100 probably >200 new flicker shads/minnows over the last 10 years. I can asure you that if HALF of them were out of tune new out of the box, I'd be complaining about them long ago. Gonna have to throw the BS flag on your stats of 50%.

 

[Kurtr]

i have had maybe one i had to tune out of the box. 1.8-2.2 mph and never any problems. Now reef runners those suck

 

[eyexer]

you have to know what your doing to tune reef runners. had a bad flicker minnow this spring but it was tuneable just like the reef runners.