Recently a friend of mine hooked an easy 5lber and an easy 8lber. The 5 threw the hooks and the 8+ straightened the hook at the boat. The jerkbait was a rogue with #6 hooks on it, so I switched out the hooks for VMC spark point 4x hooks. I'm wondering if I could change the tail hook to a sureset like on rapalas for extra security. Anyone have experience with these hooks?

Most after market trebles are an upgrade from stock hooks though there are a few exceptions.

 

 But I am not a fan of sureset hooks at all.

 

Lost fish is my reason.

 

A-Jay

On suspending baits be careful with the hooks you use.  Those 2x and up hooks can really throw off the way the lure sits on the pause.  Most of the time a quality short shank, round bend treble 1x or 2x gets the job done.  I use my reloading scale to match what came on the lures to get close.

I usually use gammy round bends, but I just painted and ballasted a JB and I grabbed what I had on hand, those wide gap brown ones (triple grip maybe). I likes!, they are staying pinned really good, I may use these more. You can't go wrong with a short shank good quality hook.

I caught so many fish on a LC Pointer that the short shank hooks broke off. I replaced them with what I had which were long shank hooks and the bait would not suspend anymore. 

I figured there would be problems with suspending jerkbaits so I bought a floater put one size bigger hooks on it, from a 6 to a 4, and it suspended by adding one split ring. Im fine with doing that if it means not losing big fish by having bigger hooks.