Wally13 wrote on Jan 26^th, 2015 at 2:11am:

I have not used Slow Death Hooks that often in Quetico with Gulp worms or similar but my experience with them  last summer on Saganagons was just "so so" vs. spinner harnesses and jigs.

Mike have you tried using the slo death hooks with a crawler harness?

Here is what worked well for me last year on Erie.......a "smile blade" (small and light) in conjunction with a slo death hook. I would be curious to see how such a set up would work in canoe country.

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I would be inclined to forego a gulp and instead use a 6" culprit plastic worm (maybe even cut an inch off)......that sounds about right.

I used the Macks behind the in-line weight mentioned earlier on a 4' lead........Macks has fairly light leaders for a commercially made crawler harness.

What might be interesting is to thread an egg sinker on, then the action disc, a few beads, a smile blade and a 2/0 slo death hook with a 6" culprit.

........of course a ball bearing swivel (preferably 2) some 4' up the line will save you a huge nightmare in the way of a twisted spool of line