How Do You Hook This Up????

[Norski]

I think over the years of fishing I have mastered the art of putting sand shrimp on a hook, but to my amaze, the dang thing keeps comming off after 1 or 2 cast.
I dont want to take the time to use the string thing, takes to much time.

What I am doing is pull off the pincher, and running the hook through the end of the tail,and turn the hook around and back through again.

I than use the egg loop to go around the tail, and pull it snug.

Anyone out there have a better I---D----or HELP.

RIVER-RAT.

[Norski]

ttt

[KingFisher85]

I use a whole sand shrimp and just thread it up on to my leader. So what if it takes forever to bait up. It last longer.

[cutt plug]

When I do drift fish with them I use a double hook rig. The bottom hook goes sideways through the head. I bend the tail over in half and put the upper hook through both folds of the tail from top to bottom. (It's hard to describe without a picture).

When it's done the head points down stream.

[Mad Mikey]

>>> What I am doing is pull off the pincher, and running the hook through the end of the tail,and turn the hook around and back through again.<<<


If I have this right you have TWO wraps of line going through the tail and then you use the egg loop to cinch it all down??? If this is what you're doing you would have the rest of the shrimp body flailing around like a whip. I'm suprised you even get ONE cast doing it like that!!!

You didn't say if you were plunking, bobber fishing or drift fishing either.

If drift fishing with a corky, don't use the whole thing, pinch it off at the tail just enough to leave one pair of legs on it. Run the hook from underneath the first segment where you pinched it off, let it dangle so the hook point is touching the backside of the tail then push the point through.

Slide the thing on and you should have enough meat left on the tail to snug the egg loop around the top. That's why I like the legs on it, BTW.
It may take a bit to get it perfect but this will stay on for a lot of casts. Some guys use a Jensen egg bumper to help keep the tail from sliding off but I don't.

Rigging a whole shrimp for bobber fishing and/or divers and bait you might get a few varying responses.
For the basics, start at the tail, hook point goes through the the joint of the last two segments from underneath. Thread the leader through. You can get fancy and thread it through the body once but the last place the hook goes is sideways through the head.
DO NOT mess with egg loop, but DO stretch the shrimp out along the leader so it hangs nicely, not all bunched up. Gently snug a half hitch around the first hole you made in the tail and you are ready to rock.
There are probably some tricks out there I havene't heard of too but this is kinda shrimp-hookin' 101 to get you pointed in the right direction.

[blacktail]

Even when you have the shrimp on properly, you still want to cast it gently, kind of like an "improved lob". You can't give it a whip launch like you can with a lure.

Mike

[ampersat]

I went up to Mciver last spring and wouldn't you know it: first cast and the pager goes off. I had to drive an hour back to work so I could spend 5 minutes rebooting a server. To placate myself, I took my two cartons of fresh sand shrimp over to the Sandy and "fished".

So I decided to figure out how best to rig it up. Here's what I came up with:
1. stick the hook in at the very tip of the tail
2. work it up through the tail and exit through the underside making sure to go through the last set of "paddles" on the bottom of the tail.
3. pull the egg loop on the hook out and run the hook through the center of the leg section and out through the top of the hood.
4. wrap the egg loop around the hood and tighten gently.

This setup would let me fish a sandshrimp almost as long as I wanted to. This was big bobber fishing at McIver so casts were pretty few compared to drifting. The hood would give out after a few cast and retrieves but the rest of the shrimp was pretty well indestructable. And it doesn't take too long to rig up.

[husker]

dont forget the half hitch around the tail....

[Norski]

Many Thanks to all, I well try to thread in up higher and use the half hitch, I use this for drifting, and like I said I hook it through the tail, now I well try to feed it on longer and the half hitch sound good to me.
THANKS GUYS.
RIVER-RAT.

[wetaline]

you can also add a jensen egg or something similar over the hook after threading and egg looping...

[GutZ]

Pop there head off with a quick flick of the thumb. (I usually like to try and hit somebody close by!) Run hook through from underside. Turn shrimp over and run hook through back. Place top under egg bumper with a bit of PINK yarn. This should hold up pretty well.

We through what we call "Pink, Pink and Pink" Pink Corky/ Pink Yarn/ Shrimp

[Luckybill]

Anyone use a bait threader?