I was looking at the mepps catalog and saw that you can get treble hooks or single hooks on all there lures. My question is has anyone tried a single hook on a inline spinner or a spoon before? How well did it work out in compairison to the "normal" tremble hook set-up. Thanks

The reason for this is that many lakes, rivers and creeks throughout the country are regulated to single barbless hooks only. Mepps spinners are some of the best trout lures ever made and they are meeting the needs of their customers by offering this.

Many years ago, when I first started casting spoons for trout in Lake Ontario, the tackle shop owner told me to replace the trebles with single hooks, which I did and have done ever since then. I have no way to know how they'd compare to trebles.

I suppose if one is cynical, he could say that the guy wanted to sell me some hooks in addition to the spoons.

But I also remember reading an article explaining why single hooks are more efficient than trebles or doubles. I don't remember the exact reason that was given, but probably something like a single hook involves a direct path into the fish's jaw on a hookset, whereas trebles have points not in a line and could possibly work against each other.

Regardless, I was always satisfied with the results on my single-hook spoons.

Thanks for the replys. I think I am going to give it a try, it really cannot hurt any. Will have to do a search to see if I can find the mentioned artical.  Thanks again