Is there any advantage to a short shank treble hook over a long shank treble?

I use several short shank wide gap trebles on several CB's

It may be in my imagination, but I seam to hook more short strikes and get more bass in the boat.

I also wanted to lessen the leverage fish get, so some I shorten and some I have double o rings.

 

 

 

Short shank allows you to go up a size and use wide Gap typically.  You don't have your hooks catch each other like upsizing with a long shank.

On 4/8/2020 at 9:27 AM, Grim_Reaver said:

Is there any advantage to a short shank treble hook over a long shank treble?

Short shank ewg trebles get hung up less than regular treble hooks they also pin the fish pretty good and yes you can upsize the hook but that affects the Buoyancy of your crankbait. I don’t personally use them unless the bait comes stock with them, I like the owner st36 stingers and that’s what I feel sticks them the best.

On ‎4‎/‎8‎/‎2020 at 3:03 PM, Wildbillb said:

Short shank allows you to go up a size and use wide Gap typically.  You don't have your hooks catch each other like upsizing with a long shank.

^^This^^

On 4/9/2020 at 7:13 PM, Meeno said:

affects the Buoyancy of your crankbait

How much would it affect buoyancy? Could this be useful in getting baits without bills to run a little bit deeper?

9 minutes ago, Grim_Reaver said:

How much would it affect buoyancy? Could this be useful in getting baits without bills to run a little bit deeper?

I had some long shanks laying around, decided to install them on a suspending Jerkbait......it was transformed into a slow sinking, not what I was after. 

7 hours ago, Grim_Reaver said:

How much would it affect buoyancy? Could this be useful in getting baits without bills to run a little bit deeper?

I’m not really sure because I don’t upsize my hooks but I would imagine on a kvd 1.5 it would effect it minimaly however I like to have a fast Buoyancy on my crankbait baits because I believe that helps in the hunting action when you bump into rocks or wood or structure I want that fast rise on the deflection of the bait and that deflection and the fast rise is what creates that hunting action imo.

On smaller crankbaits like a Baby Minus 1, short shanks are a must.  I’ve always preferred short shank on most of my crankbait a to prevent hook tangling or the front hook snagging the lip.  My landing ratio has gone way up since switching to an ewg short shank like the Mustads or Gamakatsus.