Been using the Baby Craw as a jig trailer but thinking of trying it alone. What size and type of hook to match it with?

THANKS

Try it with a  Gammy 3/0 heavy wire, or a  1/16oz keel weighted hook. They also go nicely on small round jig heads. My favorite is still on a swim jig, finesse jig, or Chatterbait trailer.

Texas rigged,3/0 ewg gammy! My favorite plastic this year!Caught maybe 20% of my smallmouth on the baby craw this year.

1/0 EWG : gammy. Honestly cannot see how a 3/0 would even fit into this bait.Just me though I like a little action to my plastic.

I use standard 2/0 or 3/0 Owner offset round bend hooks for them when Tx. rigging or flipping. Any small jig even 1/8 oz will still fall with plenty of flapping action.

Big O

www.ragetail.com

I use standard 2/0 or 3/0 Owner offset round bend hooks for them when Tx. rigging or flipping. Any small jig even 1/8 oz will still fall with plenty of flapping action.

Big O

www.ragetail.com

Agreed. And i don't think you could get advice from a better place.

OK Ill be heading to GndrMtn with this info see what they have.

For baby, I'll use a 1/0 or 2/0 ewg gamakatsu hook. I prefer the 2/0 as it leaves a little more space for the craw to move to to allow for a better hook set. For the larger craw, I like the 3/0 ewg gamakatsu.

I love the rage craws, they're my confidence bait. I like weightless as the possibilities are endless and I have found that bass like the slower fall action. I also like the weighted hook from the same brand in 1/8 or 3/16. It gives a more natural bottom swim action that was given some good strikes. This past weekend, I threw a Craw on a 1/8 chompers shakey head! I caught 2 bass in 10 minutes. I've also tried t-rigged, which hasn't been productive.

I either drag the craw on the bottom slow-to moderate retrieve, slow yo-yo action, or I'll swim it at a steady retrieve middle to top of the water.

I am a HUGE fane of the rage craws!

I use standard 2/0 or 3/0 Owner offset round bend hooks for them when Tx. rigging or flipping. Any small jig even 1/8 oz will still fall with plenty of flapping action.

Big O

www.ragetail.com

Well, this guy might know something...

However, I'm using a 1/0 Owner (live) bait hook with some

success. I fish The Baby T-rigged, split shot and as a jig trailer.

Unfortunately, I have become addicted this spring-summer and

have had a hard time fishing anything else. Now it's smallmouth

season and I don't know what to do!

: :

Someone on here gave me the idea of using the rage tail craw on a jig as a trailer. It's expensive as heck, but that sucker is fire in the water. Love the action of the craw and so do the fish from my experience. 

Someone on here gave me the idea of using the rage tail craw on a jig as a trailer. It's expensive as heck, but that sucker is fire in the water. Love the action of the craw and so do the fish from my experience.

Yup for a little bit bigger of a presentation you can't beat it. One of my favorite trailers,that and the rage chunk. Great action.

Weighted swimbaits hooks are a great way to rig the baby craw. Especially in the fall, the smallmouth love the horizontal fall you get with this set up!

Another technique to try is put a 'sluggo' hook on them (straight shanked offset hook) and use them as a finesse topwater bait.

I got 2/0 EWG hooks. I tried the baby craw set-up today I didnt get anything. I tried SPRO frog, jig/craw, shaky worm nothing. Tried for gills with waxies even that was sloooww. I managed one 6" bass with waxworm.

75 bright blue skies very little wind very clear water =tuff.