First off let me say that The Sink-N-Fool bait is designed to fish on the drop with NO action imparted by the fisherman. It has all the action it needs to catch fish. Fish it on a semi slack line and watch your line very carefully. If you see a little tick on the line or it starts to go sideways set the hook. Sink-N-Fool baits fall at about a rate of about 8" per second. The Sink-N-Fool is the perfect bait to fish on the fall. It has more action on a dead fall then any other stick baits made guaranteed. This bait can look like it’s doing the Watusi as it falls. This has everything to do with the lures wide flat design, so it has a lot of water resistance and along with the high salt content it makes this bait dance on the fall. Picture a falling leaf in the air, as it arcs down, that's how the Sink-N-Fool falls in the water. Also through a special process, I have found away to get more salt in my baits yet keep the soft and full of action. As well as keep them as durable or a little better then your popular sinking stick baits. I average about 3 to 5 fish on my HEAVY Salt "Sink-N-Fool" baits. Only use the Fish-N-Fool knot to tie on one of these baits because your going to hook into some big ole toads and you don’t want to loose it. I think a wide gap hook that has the point of the hook inline with the hook eye are the only ones that work well for this or any other stick bait. Such as the Gamakatsu EWG Worm hook in a size 2/0, 3/0 and 4/0. I use the smaller ones for baits I want to fish on or near the surface and the bigger ones when fishing sinking baits in deeper water. I fish this on a weightless Texas or Tex-Posed style rigging almost all the time. The Jerk-N-Fool can be fished at 2 different water depths according to how you rig it. I rarely fish any stick bait with any added weight except on a drop shot rig . or when fishing current I add a split shot about 18" above the bait.It can be fished Top water, it can be fished as a jerk bait just under the surface, or it can be fish in deeper water, but 90% of the time the fish will eat it on the fall.(1) First I’ll talk about the Standard rigging method,   Rigged this way the bait has a natural forward gliding horizontal wiggling that no other bait has!                                                 The Standard Rig                                                                      Wacky Rig  

 1. You put the point of the hook into the very nose of the bait, run it in down the middle about 1/2" and then turn the hook point and come straight out the bottom of the bait. (The top side of the bait has the hook slot) 2. Pull the hook through and turn it 180 deg. till the Z bend in the shank just pops out. 3. Lay the bait along side of the hook and measure the point that the back of the hook reaches too. Bend the bait up till you can put the hook point in that spot and run it straight through the bait. Now lay the hook point in the slot on the top of your bait. If you did it right it will look as straight as this. If your not fishing heavy cover or in the weeds this is all you need to do. If you are fishing the weeds just push the bait forward at the hook point towards the hook eye, put the point of the hook in the bait slightly and let it spring back skin hooking the point. Rigged this way it will remain weed less even in heavy cover. (2) For a large wobbling free fall. Rig the bait exactly the same as about but move the hook back in the body about 3/4" and put a little curve like the top water rigged bait has below. This will produce a vertical fall with a ton of action. This is a great rig for fishing vertical ledges or weed lines. It also is a great fall to use to fish the bait deadstick. This photo to the right is what it looks like rigged. The bait is shown actual size in this picture from a side view.(3) The last way to rig Sink-N-Fools that works great and you can use up some of you baits that are to tore up to much to rig tex-posed is to rig it Wacky. Simply slide a piece of 3/8" or 1/2" surgical tubing half way up the bait and put the hook in it and the a little of the bait from the bottom to the top. If your fishing in cover use a weed less type of hook as shown above.. I use a new Owner weedless wacky hook in a 1/0 that uses a nylon weed guard for fishing less heavy cover.

(4) The next rig is how I fish this bait Top Water. This is a VERY productive way to fish the Sink-N-Fool baits. Instead of starting the hook in at the nose of the bait you go in on the bottom side of the nose, push the hook point in about 1/2" and up towards the top of the bait. Now push the hook point straight down till it pops out about the 1/2" in back of the nose of the bait. Then rig the point like as in steps 2. And 3. above. If you have rigged this right it will look like this does on the right. Then just fish it with a medium retrieve as long as it stays on top. I keep a high rod tip when fishing this method and give it a little pop with the rod tip on the retrieve, kind of like working a Spook type bait. The Sink-N-Fool will have a zig zag snake like action done this way that them big old hogs just love. I’ve had many monster fish come from over 50 ft away leaving a huge wake behind them to nail this rig. Fish will very often miss the bait when fished top water on the first strike but don’t set the hook till you feel the weight of the fish. They will most likely hit it again in a few feet or on the next cast if you don’t spook them.

You can drop shot the Sink-N-Fool baits with great success as well. I like to fish the all or just part 5" bait nose hooked on the Gammy dropshot hook. You can also Carolina rig any of them. None of this is set in stone, but if you use these methods you will catch fish. But feel free to try other rigs and let me know what works for you. And Please, Please email me pictures of any hogs ya get.

Tnx To all ; Rick Lawrence

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