Hi,

Since the fishing catalogs have just started coming, I guess it means that

winter is officially over.  But, it is still below zero up here in New England.

Won't be long though, hopefully.

Would appreciate some advice with this.

I do small Pond fishing mainly; lots of smallmouth and largemouth bass.

My go-to lure is usually a small Mepps Aglia; sizes from 0 to perhaps 3 at the largest..

Always seems to work; much better than most anything else I've ever tried.

Can't imagine what the fish actually take it for ?

Thoughts ?

I bought a few more Mepps for the coming season, but thought I'd try a Single-Hook version.

What would you recommend as a Trailer ?  Should I even use a Trailer ?

So many zillions of rubber gizmos as potential Trailers, thought I would ask your opinions.

And, how would I rig them ?  Just a simple through the worm nose with the hook, or try to hide the "entire" hook

into the Trailer worm (or perhaps a Craw imitation) ?

New at this, so any and all thoughts and opinions on what to use as a Trailer, and how to rig them, would be most appreciated.

Thanks, appreciate the help,

Bob

1 hour ago, Robertqq said:

Can't imagine what the fish actually take it for ?

Food

1 hour ago, Robertqq said:

What would you recommend as a Trailer ?

A small grub

1 hour ago, Robertqq said:

Should I even use a Trailer ?

Depends a lot on what you are fishing, in my everyday lake fishing an exposed hook in-line spinner is a good way of loosing it, reason why I remove the stock treble and change it for a single hook with a trailer.

1 hour ago, Robertqq said:

And, how would I rig them ?

I rig them texposed ( texas rigged but with the point of the hook protruding from the bait with point imbedded skin deep only )