I've been spending some time swapping out hooks on my treble hook lures while I wait for the ice to melt. I was wondering how you all set up your spooks for the best action. Currently, I have a couple rattling spooks with a 1/0 KVD treble on the back and a size 2 on the front so the back 1/3 of the bait is sumberged, a little more than out of the box, but less than my stock one knocker spook. I noticed my super spook jr's barely submerged in the back, so I also added a bigger hook to drop the rear down a bit more. How do you like your spooks to sit in the water to maximize their action?

If I'm swapping out hooks for any top water, I use the same size they come with.

To answer your question I want a spook sitting flat on the water.

IMHO do to the very nature of a spook the best action comes with water displacement and you won't get that with part of it under water.

It's designed to be worked on top.

I think you're lessing your chances of enticing a strike and getting a solid hook up working it any other way.

But that's just me.

Mike

I weigh the tail end of a spook down when I want to work it with a lot of action without a lot of forward movement, as when target fishing. If I'm covering water quickly, I want the spook to sit verticle as it allows for more of a glide after the twitch.I also move the line tie to the tip of the nose which gives it more forward movement. The one thing you don't want to do is add drag to the tail section in the form of feathers, which keeps the nose of the bait from moving side to side.  I reallly like feathered trebles on topwaters as they give the bait a little action when sitting still, but NEVER on a Spook unless you want to pull the dog instead of just taking it for a walk. I experimented with adding buck tail to the rear treble. Not as much drag, but I didn't feel it added anything when the bait sat motionless.