Jig with multiple hooks

Howdy all,

I just picked up a Shimano Lucanus jig out of curiousity.  Looks bizarre, and bizarre, IMO, is cool. Cool enough to drop the cashola on it.

Anyway, I was reading through the instructions to set these things up, and one suggestion for deep water work is to rig up two of them.

Now, the jig itself has two stinger hooks.  Because of this, would rigging two of them constitute four hooks on the line, or do we just count jigs in this case?  Does it matter how many hooks are on the line for setups targetting groundfish?

3 hooks only...for ground fish, they can be trebles, must be singles for everything else, salmon etc.

one suggestion for deep water work is to rig up two of them.

Let me guess.. Shimano is the one suggesting tying up two at a time.  Sounds like a good scam to get you to buy more expensive jigs faster.  One thing about bottom fishing is that you will loose lures.  What are they like $14 a pop?  Ooch!!

If you want a secondary lure with your lucanus jig add a cheap shrimp fly.

Besides as you've guessed you'd have a hook count issue.  In Oregon for rockfish you can have three hooks.  Two Lucanus jigs would be four hooks.

Brian

What I thought.

Yeah, we'll see if I am throwing $14 down the hole.  They look cool.

There are some knockoff jigs that look/feel like lucanus but are cheaper.  No time to look them up now, but you should be able to Google them up.

-Allen

Here's one of the links I'm sure polepole was thinking of.
http://www.charkbait.com/cs/cst1.htm

Here's one of the links I'm sure polepole was thinking of.
http://www.charkbait.com/cs/cst1.htm

Dat be dem.

-Allen

My father in-law hooked my up with one of those crazy jigs.

It had two ultra sticky small hooks and I got a lot of fish. One big ling and then the braid from the jig to hook snapped.

I'm in love with the spothawg.

Z