looks like a great dog-walking lure.
Can't tell you how many fish I've caught on cocahoes sinces the 80s. Always the most important thing is let them get the hook in their mouth. On a cocahoe when you feel trout bite the tail, you slow down your retrieve to look like they injured it, and they'll come right back up and eat it. (same thing bottom-bouncing for white bass - they injure their food a few times before they eat it). Our recent trip to Rockport, the novice really applied my advice and caught more keeper reds than anyone else. And I'll be passing on your instructions.
Last trip. one buddy kept his jointed dog-walking plug rigged, and every time we moved in the truck, his lure tied up all the rods. I was real happy to introduce him to Trout Support for the same work.
These look a lot easier to keep out of the grass than a cocahoe with jig weight. I don't expect any problems.
I'm also a firm believer in Procure - been using similar products since the 80s, and getting the smell of us off plastic lures makes a big difference in fish hanging onto them.
Each of us will have at least two rods rigged with different lures.
I still have a few Stanzi flex jig heads, the TTF similar jig head, and like to rig my cocahoes with a double hook.
Of course we're rigging the Trout Support lures with swimbait hooks.
this Hoagies rig with a Stanzi jig head imitates a kicking shrimp when you click, and when it sinks, imitates a shrimp swimming with its legs - have always done great at S. Padre with this.
I've set a few Kahle hooks in the surf. Also rigging these so the hook is not buried
go by your shop for a lure pick-up yesterday. He loaded up and is going to take them to the Chandelier Islands in a few weeks. As he said, "I just want to get my confidence up on them where I know there are fish, so I will be ready for the deep shell in December and January." He also said he wants to go after flounder with them in December.
