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


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