What is your hook of choice? Straight or EWG? And size?

I use owner twistlock EWG hooks. size depends on the size of craw

Depends on the craw, mostly ewg(weighted and unweighted), sometimes a weedless wide gap finesse hook.

3.5" craw on a 1/0 round bend. 

Rage craw or lobster on an ewg twistlock. Owner or moaner.

I use the Owner Rig-N-Hook, most times a 4/0

26 minutes ago, long island basser said:

I use the Owner Rig-N-Hook, most times a 4/0

gene larew salt craw with said above hook.

Straight-Shank Hook

Go with a Mustad grip-pin flipping hook and the head of your craw will become a permanent fixture.

Without knowing the craw you're throwing, I really can't recommend a hook size.

 

Roger

I like owner 5/0 twist lock on a big Zoom super speed craw. Works well as a topwater too. 

I normally use an ewg on most craws due to their diameter.  4/0 usually but will go up or down in size depending on length of lure. 

I prefer to throw them on a weighted hook though. Either a light shakeyhead for a slower bite or a weighted hook for swimming them. 

You're from SC so I'd error on larger hook sizes b/c you have bigger fish-3/0 or 4/0 should be fine. 

 

If you like cross their eyes hook sets I'd go with Catts hooks.  

If you like softer hook sweeps EWG work great.  Bend the hook tip 2-3 degrees sideways, not upward, and you'll increase ur hook ups.  

 

Just don't use EWG hooks with pure muscle hook sets or you'll pull the lure right out of their mouth.

Either a 2/0 or a 3/0 EWG depending on the conditions.

Mmmm, I've never thrown a weightless craw. 

Never even thought about it as a craw wouldn't be falling through the water column. 

 

What am I missing?

 

 

Mike

2 hours ago, Mike L said:

Mmmm, I've never thrown a weightless craw. 

Never even thought about it as a craw wouldn't be falling through the water column. 

 

What am I missing?

 

 

Mike

You let it sink and drag it. I do this with trick and Finesse Worms. It forces you to slow way down when they aren't biting reaction baits.

Worms and other plastics I understand and use them all the time, but craws to me are meant to be dragged so I always use a weight, that's why I asked..

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Mike 

8 minutes ago, the reel ess said:

You let it sink and drag it. I do this with trick and Finesse Worms. It forces you to slow way down when they aren't biting reaction baits.

 

8 hours ago, Mike L said:

Worms and other plastics I understand and use them all the time, but craws to me are meant to be dragged so I always use a weight, that's why I asked..

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Mike 

 

 

Ever watch a crawfish fall through the water?

 

With their tail fanned out flat, claws spread wide, they fall through the water horizontal (flat) not nose down (vertical) like with a weight.

 

Texas rigged craw worms both weightless or weighted are highly ignored for some reason.

2 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Ever watch a crawfish fall through the water?

 

With their tail fanned out flat, claws spread wide, they fall through the water horizontal (flat) not nose down (vertical) like with a weight.

 

Texas rigged craw worms both weightless or weighted are highly ignored for some reason.

 

Honestly I never have!  

I've seen them only on the bottom running and hopping a few inches. Never occurred to me that a craw would jump to the surface making the fall back down a viable weightless option. 

 

I know now

 

Thanks

 

 

Mike

2 hours ago, Catt said:

 

 

Texas rigged craw worms both weightless or weighted are highly ignored for some reason.

I have caught a lot of bass on the 4 inch Larew Salt Craw in the past   but I dont have time to fish everything . A lot of productive lures end up not getting the playing time they deserve . Plus all my tackle fits in one gear bag , so lots of stuff gets left behind . I'll have to squeeze some Salt Craws in there for  next season .

Mainly 4/0 or 3/0 EWG for a weightless creature baits. I don't believe a weightless craw is highly ignored I've thrown countless rage craws weightless and have had plenty success.

Never fished one weightless either, will have to give it a go. But either way it depends on the craw itself length/thickness and if I'm pitchin it or casting it.

Throw a weightless t rigged craw in the gaps of lily pads & in sparse grass. Or the edges of thick grass. It'll make a believer outta ya. ?

10 hours ago, Mike L said:

Never occurred to me that a craw would jump to the surface making the fall back down a viable weightless option. 

 

I know now

 

Thanks

 

 

Mike

 

Depending on water depth a scared crawfish can come close to the surface.

 

Now obviously we are talking 5' or less!

 

They will also takeoff from the bank skimming along the surface before diving.

First fish I caught was with a weightless craw last weekend. I actually went with a double weightless setup. Using the swivel free sliding on my main line and dropping another hook down about 16 inches down from a swivel tied to the end of the main line.  Was testing to see what they wanted had a 7.5" worm on the second hook. We landed about 75 fish that day in the light rain and solid clouds. 

 

As for the hook i've used grip-pin flipping hook, and a few other lighter wire strait shank hooks with the pin like the one Catt posted. I wouldn't want to say a specific size either without knowing the bait. But generally I throw a 4" bait and a 4/0 hook generally works. Obviously its not set in stone.