Wally13,

I'm not even a serious fisherman but I really enjoyed and appreciate your detailed response to PK.  [smiley=cool.gif]

  I have a few of those Mack rigs and do think that added flash helps. I read somewhere that someone cut the Death Hook off and tied on a snap lock and used a floating stick type bait. Idea its supposed to look like a bigger minnow chasing smaller ones.

I did that to one of my rigs and it seemed to be fairly effective plus the floating stick bait at an angle was almost snag-proof unless the slip weight wedged into some rocks.

Thanks again for taking the time to go into detail. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]