I’m sure a lot of you have seen the rigging method for urchin baits that utilizes a frog hook. I don’t live in a bass town necessarily and I just have a sportsman’s to work with.

They had nothing I needed for this rig. No hooks, no drop shot weights in 1/8 oz. So I had to make my own. The hooks were made famous by some guy that won a tournament with this rig and you can’t find them.

Hook is from a pad crasher jr that was at the end of its life. 1/8 oz lead egg sinker. I took wire from an inline spinner that I found and made my own drop shot weight.

Seems solid. I want to see how it fishes before I drop $20 on a handful of hooks and weights

Frog hooks are out of stock everywhere. I found some this am at waterfront tackle at lake Guntersville. 4 owner 5/0 double frog hooks for $9. That about what THU had the 10 packs last week for, so…

I've been taking 2 straight shank flipping hooks and putting them back to back and shrink tubing them together, sometimes with a worm rattle in the shrink tube also. It's not real easy to get the hook eyes lined up perfectly, putting them both on a split ring helps a little bit, but then you have to put them on a split ring and take them off of it after you're done.

I am going to shrink wrap a 1/8 nail weight on a frog hook. Grabbed some yesterday, but haven’t had time yet to do so.

I have the freak-o rig, but the weight just pulled right through a coike fish M and I lost it.z

Didn’t realize so many people were having the same problem as I was. I didn’t look too hard for frog hooks. A good rigging alternative is a 3/0 weighted EWG hook. The weight keeps the bait in plae, 1/8 oz makes them sink just slightly faster than a senko. You could obviously go heavier depending on how you like to fish.

Hook up ratio is very good. Doesn’t pin the small fish that hit it, but it works very well. I’ll likely use that method as my primary rigging method but wanted to try this way also.

The issue with frog hooks, like treble hooks - is that I think is the ball of the Urchin slides down into the hook gap. With dense plastic between the mouth of the fish and the hook point leads to a poor hook up ratio. I like the Trigger Hooks or Dice Rigs that have a cradle or keeper that prevents the ball from sliding down.