snelling hooks on big game lures

I've seen many lures that have been either rigged by the manufacturer or by
professional mates and have noticed that most of them use crimps to attach
the hooks to the mono leaders. I've often wondered why this is.

I've been told and have read that snelling your hooks is almost 100% as
strong as the line itself. It pulls straight, is extremely easy to do, does
not require you to use additional hardware (sleeves, crimping tools etc) and
will not corrode like the sleeves will.

It seems like a no-brainer, but I never seen it done. There must be a
reason.

What am I missing?

TIA!

Robert

If you are going to do a few, you make a good case for snelling.

But the factory makes them by the thousand. The cost of materials there is a
nit compared to the labor cost.
Even the mate who may only do a few at a time, but does it often, would
rather pay for the tool and sleeves and have them on hand rather than spend
the time hand snelling.

Charlie

"Robert" wrote in message
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I've seen many lures that have been either rigged by the manufacturer or
by
professional mates and have noticed that most of them use crimps to attach
the hooks to the mono leaders. I've often wondered why this is.

I've been told and have read that snelling your hooks is almost 100% as
strong as the line itself. It pulls straight, is extremely easy to do,
does
not require you to use additional hardware (sleeves, crimping tools etc)
and
will not corrode like the sleeves will.

It seems like a no-brainer, but I never seen it done. There must be a
reason.

What am I missing?

TIA!

Robert

Yeah...you're probably right about that, but recently, I was putting away a
few of my Cedar plugs and had the hooks fall off because the sleeves had
corroded.

These were factory rigged lures. I re-rigged them with my own tools and
sleeves with no problem, but that's what got me to thinking about snelling
them. I obviously have the tools to crimp future lures, but I am wondering
if snelling wouldn't be better.

I have been looking online trying to find info about it and so far the only
thing that I have come up with was one web site that said that you shouldn't
snell with mono heavier than 50 lbs. I am not sure why. I have snelled
many bottom rigs with 80 lb line and it worked fine.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Robert

"Charlie Bress" wrote in message
...
If you are going to do a few, you make a good case for snelling.

But the factory makes them by the thousand. The cost of materials there is
a
nit compared to the labor cost.
Even the mate who may only do a few at a time, but does it often, would
rather pay for the tool and sleeves and have them on hand rather than
spend
the time hand snelling.

Charlie

"Robert" wrote in message
. com...
I've seen many lures that have been either rigged by the manufacturer or
by
professional mates and have noticed that most of them use crimps to
attach
the hooks to the mono leaders. I've often wondered why this is.

I've been told and have read that snelling your hooks is almost 100% as
strong as the line itself. It pulls straight, is extremely easy to do,
does
not require you to use additional hardware (sleeves, crimping tools etc)
and
will not corrode like the sleeves will.

It seems like a no-brainer, but I never seen it done. There must be a
reason.

What am I missing?

TIA!

Robert

Robert wrote:

I have been looking online trying to find info about it and so far the only
thing that I have come up with was one web site that said that you shouldn't
snell with mono heavier than 50 lbs. I am not sure why. I have snelled
many bottom rigs with 80 lb line and it worked fine.

Any thoughts?

I've got a little "cheap" tool that will snell up to 100#, in under 10
sec's, but to tell you the truth, 80# and above I use sleeves myself
--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com