How to set up a slugo

[CygnusX-1]

Sorry to ask this guys, I have not yet converted to Fly. I love my baitcasster with a Yozuri minnow. I have read so many people talk about slugos' and cant figure out how you rig them, am I dumb or what am I missing?

Any help would be appriciated.


Monty:-%

[tmillerzzz]

Anybody out there with Sluggos and a Digicam?

[Glennon]

Very easy to rig once you learn it.

Hook goes in the nose and then out the chin.

Slide up to hook eye

Rotate hook so point is towards belly

Push through the sluggo (Usually at the two lines in the sluggo) until it comes out the top.

You can either leave the point exposed or hide it so that it is weedless.

[dharrison87]

Slug-go brand hooks specially designed for them are helpful when trying to match size. Go to the store, pick up a pack of the slug-go hooks and then compare it to Gamu's or other high-quality hooks for increased point.

[inserchof50lber]

the slug-go hooks you speak of are called the texposer hooks, and your right, they are an excellent hook, use a 5/0 one on 8in.? slug go(i dont remember what size exactly that they come in, all i know is that the biggest is 9.) lunker city also makes fin-s fish, which are excellent, 7 in. albino shad colored ones work excellent

[BobDobilina]

do they sell these hooks with jig heads? wondering how to get them deep...

[dondkim]

Sluggo is one of my staple lure. I caught more stripers on sluggo than any lures including flys.

I use 1 - 1 1/2 oz shad head jig with 6" sluggo. I cut the head of sluggo about 1/4" so the sluggo can be flush to the jig head. then I secure the sluggo with crazy glue on the head and hook.

I let it hit the bottom or slose to it and bounce the lure with sharp twitch.

whenever blue fish are present I change to hard lures because blue fish will rob you blind.

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[caynenfisher]

I use a 3/8oz heavy wire jighead rigged on a 4 1/2" sluggo, which gives me the ability to work trhe whole water column. It has been the number one rig for years, I really don't need anything else except a topwater plug to have fun with. Sometimes I use a 3/16 oz mister twister keeper hook, to dance the sluggo across the water, which gets me more blow-ups but fewer hookups, but it's a lot of fun!

[C. GIll]

The Martha's Vineyard Surcasters' site used to have a good article on rigging the big 9" Sluggos. I'm sorry I don't know how to provide you folks a link here, but it is worth checking out. I think the article was in the fishing reports area...?

A weedless rigged Sluggo saved the day for me once when it was grassy on Nantucket. It was the only thing I had that I could fish.

[dondkim]

I use a 3/8oz heavy wire jighead rigged on a 4 1/2" sluggo, which gives me the ability to work trhe whole water column. It has been the number one rig for years, I really don't need anything else except a topwater plug to have fun with. Sometimes I use a 3/16 oz mister twister keeper hook, to dance the sluggo across the water, which gets me more blow-ups but fewer hookups, but it's a lot of fun!

Dito,

Four years ago, My son (13 years old at that time) and I fished with well known guide on Monomoy and another well known guide with his two clients, total 5 adults and a child.

All the adults fly fished and my son used light spinning with 6" sluggo on a jig head.

My little boy outfished all five big men including the guides.

Ever since, I am totally sold on Sluggo.

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[caynenfisher]

yeh, now my question is did any of those guys on the charter try the sluggo, or were they too proud to put down the flyrod?
It's just another tool to hook up with the best fish that swims...

[dondkim]

My son was the only one had sluggo. It was suggested by Jerret at FISHING THE CAPE in Harwich the day before that I should rig sluggo for my son.

MY son was using 7' rod with 10lbs test. He lost couple of sluggos to blues and I had to put on a wire leader.

All the grown ups were die-hard fly guys and we were wading on the North Monomoy.


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[hydroTechNoCrat]

I own some sluggos but never fished them. Mosly fly or soft plastic FinS, BassAssin and Storm Shads in the haba.

Dumb question. Don't you need a barrel swivel somewhere in your sluggo rig?

Also, anyone use sluggos in the haba?

Its about time I started leveraging my sluggo assets (sorry, too much time in technology marketing) :) .

Thanks,

Dom

[dondkim]

I own some sluggos but never fished them. Mosly fly or soft plastic FinS, BassAssin and Storm Shads in the haba.

Dumb question. Don't you need a barrel swivel somewhere in your sluggo rig?

Also, anyone use sluggos in the haba?

Its about time I started leveraging my sluggo assets (sorry, too much time in technology marketing) :) .

Thanks,

Dom

I put a barrel swivel and put 18" - 24" leader. I tie the leader directly to the jig head that way you have better control on sluggo.

For blue fish I now use 50lbs Whiplash instead of wire which is much softer. I make perfection loop on both ends of Whiplash so I can change easily and reuse it. Make the perfection loop on the lure side a littile bigger so you can put the sluggo thru.

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[Pauper Piscator]

Sluggos can be a little tricky. I prefer no swivel, because sometimes if the the bait is not "just so" it spins and this appears to be a big "turn off."

my .02.

I put a barrel swivel and put 18" - 24" leader. I tie the leader directly to the jig head that way you have better control on sluggo.

For blue fish I now use 50lbs Whiplash instead of wire which is much softer. I make perfection loop on both ends of Whiplash so I can change easily and reuse it. Make the perfection loop on the lure side a littile bigger so you can put the sluggo thru.

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[SageBoy]

I think on Lunker City's web they will show you how to rig the Sluggo.

What I like to do is take the 4" baby Sluggo and rig that on a 3' 15lb Fluoro leader attached to a barrel swivel using 10lb main line. This is deadly when sight fishing. That size comes close to the size of the bait that you usually find on the flats.



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[Slappy]

I only fish them with a jighead. The bigger fish are usually under the smaller ones! About 90% of my fishing is done with a sluggo.

[bdowning]

True. I usually throw a small egg sinker above the barrel swivel just to keep the rig down in current. One problem with using the small sluggos is finding a hook that's strong enough to hold a big fish. The stronger hooks are thicker but tend to tear the sluggo apart easily. The thinner hooks stay in the sluggo but will straighten on a cow unless you play it very carefully or use a noodle rod or fly rod.

Crab flies work pretty well on this setup too.

-bd


I think on Lunker City's web they will show you how to rig the Sluggo.

What I like to do is take the 4" baby Sluggo and rig that on a 3' 15lb Fluoro leader attached to a barrel swivel using 10lb main line. This is deadly when sight fishing. That size comes close to the size of the bait that you usually find on the flats.



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[Slappy]

Dont be afraid of the big sluggos! I started small but have been upsizing each season. Last year it was 9" sluggos and 10" fin-s. My keeper count tripled! My biggest fish the last 2 years were on the 10" fin-s. I agree that the hardest part is finding a good jighead. For the canal where you can fish a heavy head there are a few good ones, but I have switched to fishing rocky shores with light heads. I bent a few hooks last summer! Why are the tackle makers surprised that you would want to present big plastics to fish in shallow water? Even lunker city doesn't make good jigheads for their lures!

[bdowning]

Good question. Finding good off-the-rack heavy jigheads for big sluggos/Fin-S that won't empty your wallet can be tough, especially when you lose dozens in a fishing season (I fish the Canal, enough said). The real fanatics pour their own with strong hooks. Some tackle shop owners are wising up and supplying better jigheads, usually custom made by local suppliers, for big plastics, but not many.

-bd

Why are the tackle makers surprised that you would want to present big plastics to fish in shallow water? Even lunker city doesn't make good jigheads for their lures!

[Henry]

Just as in "there's more than one way to skin a cat"...there's more than one way to effectively rig a sluggo.

On a 6 inch sluggo for example, instead of inserting the hookpoint in the tip/nose of the sluggo...instead, enter the side of the sluggo approx. 2 inches from the tip. Push the point through the belly of the bait and continue to texas rig as you normally would.

You won't believe the action!!! Now, instead of the smooth gliding action of a normally rigged sluggo...the bait can be twitched virtually in place. You have to try it to understand the true action. You can cast this bait into a weed pocket and work it there without causing it to be pulled out of the cover while trying to add action to it.

Give it a shot.

[flysully]

[QUOTE=C. GIll]The Martha's Vineyard Surcasters' site used to have a good article on rigging the big 9" Sluggos. I'm sorry I don't know how to provide you folks a link here, but it is worth checking out. I think the article was in the fishing reports area...?

Here's the link to "Fishing the Sluggo" which appeared on the MVSA site:
http://www.mvsurfcasters.org/fishing_the_slug-go.htm

[KBM]

Slide sluggo or soft lure with no lead head up and over the hook eye take some heavy, mono 50 works, fine push it thru the sluggo thru the hook eye then mushroom the mono with heat source use a needlenose plier to hold the opposite side close the repeat the "mushroom" the you have a secured sluggo with Eyes.