i've used trailers. and i've used trailer hooks.

but whenever i try to use them together the trailer always seems to get fouled on the trailer hook..

i add the trailer. then add the trailer hook.

is there a "trick" to rigging that i'm missing.

i usually use a small curly tail worm or i cut the end off a used up double tail hula grub (i like the curly tails action) rather than use a double straight tail trailer. is that my problem??

thanks...

Sounds like you've got it backwards.

so the trailer goes on the trailer hook??

wow....do i feel like a big dummy...

is that a mr. obvious??

I have always wondered this myself, but never tried it. I was watching a KVD video the other day and he was saying that he uses curly tail grubs with the tail going down and a trailer hook. The grub wasn't on the trailer hook.

The only trailer I use on a spinnerbait is the hook.

The only trailer I use on a spinnerbait is the hook.

Same here. I rarely use a trailer

I've seen it done with the grub on the main hook and the end of the grub hooked on the trailer or the grub is laced on the trailer hiding the hook eye of the trailer. The trailer is then put on them main hook eliminating the use of a piece of tubing to hold the trailer in place. I very rarely use a trailer hook, but the laced meathod is what I like. Much more action to the trailer, IMHO.

Same here. I rarely use a trailer

same

If you really want something trailing behind the bait just get a spinnerbait made with a long skirt, like one of the KVD strike kings or a war eagle.

If you really want something trailing behind the bait just get a spinnerbait made with a long skirt, like one of the KVD strike kings or a war eagle.

I hate those skirts. They constantly foul in the trailer hook and become a ball of rubber that's perfectly pointless as it doesn't do what it was intended to do. Without a trailer hook, they're fine.

Good post Bluebasser86, I personally like the skirt that way. I don't use trailers a lot, but when i do make spinnerbaits I leave the bottom part of the skirt long. I think it really changes the whole profile of the bait. If you do add a trailer hook, you could always cut the middle section of the bottom skirt material, giving the bait more of a twin tail look.

If I am using a trailer I don't use a stinger hook and with that said I very rarely use a trailer and pretty much always use a stinger hook.

SJ

I put the trailer on, mostly lizard tails and the zoom spinnerbait trailers, then put the trailer hook on over the hook so that it can swing freely. Then I throw on the little piece of tubing to keep it on there. Before my friend showed me this, I put the piece of tubing over the trailer hook eye and put it on the spinnerbait. After I started putting it on so it could move freely, I started hanging on to a lot more fish.