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How I rig the Mattlures minnow.

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I had a couple people ask how I am rigging Matt's new minnow so I took some photos with both ways I have been rigging it. Here is a photo of the bait with a Lucky Strike jighead I buy at my local Walmart and an 4/0 Owner rig'n hook with a crimped on weight. These weights are hard to find and I bought all a local tackle shop had a few years ago but you can get the weighted Falcon hooks that have the weight already on the hook at a bunch of places online and rig it the same way. I like to add the weight myself since I can vary the weight myself without carrying so many hooks since I use the Owner hooks anyway. I use 1/8 oz and 3/16 oz crimp on weights.

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Here is a photo of a bottom view of the bait rigged on the Lucky Strike jighead. I just stick the eye of the jighead through the slit in the bottom and out the top of the bait just behind the eyes in the front part of the slit.

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Here is a top view of the bait after the jighead is inserted in the bait the eye of the hook is just behind the eyes and the tip of the hook comes out at the front of the dorsal fin. The bait is now weedless with a jighead inside. When you set the hook the hook comes up out of the top of the bait and hooks the fish.

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Here is a bottom view of the weighted hook inside the bait. The weight is barely visable when viewed from the side of the bait and the tip of the hook comes out at the dorsal fin of the bait making the bait weedless. A few of the pics are a little blurry but I hope this makes sense. I was trying to explain how I was putting the jighead in weedless without pics before and nobody could understand so maybe this will help. Also in another post it seemed like the concept of a weighted hook in the bait might have confused some people.

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