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Mustad slow death hooks
« on: Apr 20, 2010, 09:16 AM »
Any of you Manitoba boys try these hooks in our waters?  What is your opinions on them?

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maw31

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Re: Mustad slow death hooks
« Reply #1 on: Apr 20, 2010, 10:07 AM »
what do these hooks look like? ??? never heard of them. :-\
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grandrapidsgizmo

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Re: Mustad slow death hooks
« Reply #2 on: Apr 20, 2010, 10:24 AM »
Slow Death hooks are the key to the "Slow Death" rig developed in South Dakota. Basically a half crawler is threaded on a Slow Death hook and trolled slowly behind a bottom bouncer. The bend in the hook causes the bait to rotate in large circles behind the bouncer. Used this rig for years, before the Slow Death hook came out we used Tru Turn plastic worm hooks- almost the same thing. Works awesome on finicky walleyes.

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Re: Mustad slow death hooks
« Reply #3 on: Apr 21, 2010, 12:33 AM »
This is the video of them in action.


http://www.mustad.no/slowdeath/Slow%20Death%20Video.html

GrandRapidsGizmo have you tried using these for trout?


grandrapidsgizmo

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Re: Mustad slow death hooks
« Reply #4 on: Apr 21, 2010, 10:12 AM »
Nope, just wallys. Works great drifting on the Saskatchewan river in town.

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Re: Mustad slow death hooks
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2010, 11:13 PM »
I have used them on a crawler harness last year for walleyes on LOTW....worked well. 8)

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Re: Mustad slow death hooks
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2010, 08:57 AM »
I've heard of them but never tried them myself. They look awesome and they would get tangled up a lot less then a spinner I would think.

Im sure they obviously have a special bend on them, but I have a couple plain single hooks in my tackle box....think Id be able to bend one to look and act similar in the water ?
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Re: Mustad slow death hooks
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2010, 10:02 AM »

Im sure they obviously have a special bend on them, but I have a couple plain single hooks in my tackle box....think Id be able to bend one to look and act similar in the water ?

That is exactly how they started in the first place actually.  Some pros were getting good results by bending Aberdeen hooks (the kind of hooks on pickeral rigs).  They were then able to convince Mustad to make them specifically.  So, yes is my answer, give it a try.
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Re: Mustad slow death hooks
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2010, 10:34 AM »
I'll have give it a try.
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