What Are Stinger Hooks
April 29th, 2010 | 
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What are Stinger hooks? These are a single, double or treble hook on 2 or 3 inches of line, or wire attached to the main lure’s head, eye, or hook. The main reason to use a stinger is for light biting, just mouthing or bait stealing fish that you cannot seem to catch on the main lure. In early season walleye can steal minnows from the hook by a pull on the tail and when fish are less agressive they may just mouth and spit out the lure. A stinger will help you catch some of these. You can use Single Snelled Sting’R Hook, a Sting’r Double Barb
or a Sting’r Treble Hook
What Types and How Do I Use A Stinger Hook?
Slip OnSting’r
All three of the Sting’r Hooks above will slip on over the hook of any jig. However there are specifci Northland Fire-Ball Jigs that have an independent eye to hook the Sting’r hook onto. In Saskatchewan we can not use live minnows but we can use commercially frozen minnows. Select a minnow and put on the main hook by hooking just behind the head, then take the sting’r hook and stick the hook or one of the barbs, completely through the minnow just in front of the tail or as far back as you can without putting a bend in the minnow. Work the jig exactly as before only now you can set the jig sooner. You might also catch walleye on the sting’r hook without setting the hook.
Trailer Hooks
There are three styles of multi (trailer) hooks. The eye of a second hook slipped over the main lure hook, an attached wirelead second hook, or a hook tied directly to the shank of the main lure. All three of these are called a trailer hitch hooks.
Trailer Hook on Hook: take the Gamakatsu Trailer Hook and slip the eye of the second hook over the point of the main lure. If the hook is long enough it will turn so that it runs inline with the main lure, if it doesn’t, take the hook back off, take pliers hold hook shank and use second pliers to twist eye of second hook slightly, place it back on the main lure check to see if second hook runs in line. To rig with bait take minnow and put main lure hook up through the minnow behind the head from belly to back of head. Lift the minnow and push the second hook up througth minnow as far back as possible but do not bend minnow.
Wire Lead Hook: This lure requires a stiff wire leader and a Mustad Dressed Trebles hook. This will work for plain jigs or plastci body jigs. First remove plastic body from jig, then take the stiff thin wire, put through eye of the main hook, attach by twisting end around rest of wire. Measure about 5" of wire and twist it around the hook shank at lease three times, thread the wire through the plastic body and put the plastic body back on the main hook, attach the XCalibur Dressed Trebles
hook to the wire by running wire through treble hook eye, adjust so that treble eye is about 1" behind main hook and twist wire. Cut off any extra wire. Can now fish with or without bait.
Direct Tied Trailer: This requires tieing a second trailer hook like above directly to the line about 1 – 2" behind main lure or tieing a completely different second smaller lure behind the first, such as a panfish hook or snelled hock with a minnow or small bait on it. With the new flourocarbon leader line the connection is almost invisible and the second hook is intended to look like a smaller fish following the first hook. the idea here is to catch the or attract the fish to stirke either lure.
Multi-hooks:
When talking about these I mean Floating String’r, Spinner Harnesses
, Secret Walleye Rigs
, and Worm Crawler
. These have one or two hooks already tied as a stinger and are used mainly for fishing Walleye with a bottom bouncer or 3 way swivel system colse to bottom. These are used by spreading the bait (worm or leach) over the multi hooks. These lures mean more hooks but if not used properly mean more hooks to get tangled up.
Think of all of these lures and stinger or trailer hooks, the same as barb wire always catching your pant leg. They deliver the "Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee" or the "One-Two Knockout" of "Ali" and Tyson" in your corner. Many times a stinger has saved the fishing trip simply because the minnow, leech or nightcrawler was bit off short of the main hook.
Other Great Stinger Lures Or Kits:
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