The Cotton Cordel wally diver is one of my favorite lures.  The problem is that if I throw something with treble hooks a lot, eventually I'll get a deep hookset that I won't be able to remove without killing or harming the fish.  This wasn't a problem when I was upstate New York fishing and all legal catches were going into the frying pan, but now, I'm exclusively catch and releasing Bass and am not going to take the risk.  I know the local Bass are attracted by the Wally diver as I've caught a few with the lure, but stopped when I remembered some problems removing trebles in the past.

 

I'm not too handy, but had a friend replace the trebles on my shiny mepps with single weedless hooks.  He told me that the rings on the wally divers were different and he was unable to replace those trebles.

 

If there are single hook diving crankbaits, can somebody send me a link?

 

Ty

 

 

One option could be to clip some of the treble hooks off.  That helps with line issues too.

You can convert about any treble hook bait to single hooks if you feel so compelled. The trick is buying the right hook from the beginning, not modifying existing ones to try and make them work.

 

Look here: Correct single hooks

 

 

 

30 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

You can convert about any treble hook bait to single hooks if you feel so compelled. The trick is buying the right hook from the beginning, not modifying existing ones to try and make them work.

 

Look here: Correct single hooks

 

 

 

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