Bulithed

Thanks Jon P.. I just found this, so my apologies for an extremely late reply to say thanks. I'll try what you suggested. I guess there are far more waters that an open hook can be thrown in than I imagined. After fishing in Louisiana, Alabama and Oklahoma the past 33 years, I can't use them in any of the waters I fish. Too much cover. But, I like it that way.

I've been toying with various configurations of swimbait hooks and Zoom flukes or the Swimmin Super Flukes, but there's nothing I'd want to show yet - they're a mess, truthfully. Has anyone come up with an underspin that's as weedless as a Zoom fluke rigged on a weighted swimbait hook? In fact, that's what I'm really looking for - add an underspin on a swimbait hook near the "Z" bend. I've seen some homebuilt underspins with a jig weedguard, but it won't work well for me unless it's rigged with the hook point skinned just below the plastic surface. The lakes I fish in Oklahoma have numerous Christmas trees that weren't thinned out before sinking them. Even the new Do-It Brush jigs get hung bad enough that I can't pop 'em loose with the bow trick. Just thinking out loud. It's going to require a pretty significant hook modification with resources I don't have. Thanks for reading this.