Hey guys I was wondering if anyone has replaced the hooks on their crank baits? I’ve been staying away from hard plastics for a while now because I hate how treble hooks snag on to everything and I always seem to get them caught on everything.

 

Today I tried a strike king lipless crank bait and I brought in a lot of grass with it every cast. For inshore fishing I’ve replaced trebles with in line hooks and I just ordered #1 in line hooks and was wondering if I could use them on my 1/2 oz lipless crank baits or would that change the action of the lure? I feel a lot more confident with the single hooks but can’t find much info on it for bass fishing.

 

 

have never used single hooks on hardbaits before,but it's worth trying if you want. I get snagged on grass all the time.in Fl, that's to be expected.that's why soft plastics were invented.LOL.but heck yeah why not try going to a single hook,won't hurt to try.let us know how you do with it.

Make sure you buy hooks that have a large enough eye to work on split rings.

It's funny -- this seems to be a big trend among the inshore saltwater crowd, and quite a few plugs in that market segment even come with single hooks instead of trebles.  For some reason, this has not caught on in the bass community and I'm not sure why.

 

If you want to do it, take a look at the saltwater VMC and Owner offerings that are targeted for the redfish/trout/snook crowd.  

 

https://www.tackledirect.com/vmc-ils-inline-single-hooks.html

I switched a bunch of my trebles to the owner single replacement hooks this off-season. Not enough time on the water for me to form an opinion. They don’t seem to effect the action of a Sammy I was throwing this weekend. 

You're going to want something like these so they sit right and have a big enough eye for the split ring.

 

https://www.ownerhooks.com/product/single-replacement-hooks-x-strong/

 

I haven't tried them on cranks, so I can't give you any info on that, but I have used them on kastmasters for trout. 

I just picked up two Sebile Slim Punchers on sale at BPS and noticed they come with single hooks for replacement.  I've never fished a crank bait with a single hook.  Not sure I will.

There have been numerous threads asking this question before. If you search the website, you'll probably find a few of those threads. 

 

As stated before in those threads, I will never give up my treble hooks. 

 The saltwater trend is more about the fish than getting snagged...

 

Depending on how it rests on the lure, a single hook can still be fairly Grabby... A solution I came to years ago For certain Baits like rattle traps is turning the lure nose up at 90°. Notice which hooks want to point Straight down? Those are the ones they get hung up typically. I Cut them with nail pullers on certain baits.  Try to get it close to where there’s not a knub protruding or file it down so it doesn’t want to grab algae. You can creep a rattle trap across bottom and even over wood a fair bit this way. I like my JDM Rattle Baits But at over 20 bucks ea you can lose a lot of them quickly on the rivers. 

 

 This is more for Straight retrieve mind you- If youre jigging it erratically and the remaining hooks are swinging everywhere it’s not  quite as helpful.