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Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

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Sportsmen Since 1968

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

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Sportsmen Since 1968

Perch spreaders losing ground to homemade perch ‘rigs’

John Hageman’s homemade perch rig includes three snelled hooks on the line and a sinker on the bottom. He swears by this “rig” and says hasn’t used a traditional perch spreader like most anglers employ since 1986 when friend Steve Szuch demonstrated the rig’s effectiveness. (Photo by John Hageman)

More than 60 years ago when I began perch fishing with my dad and grandfather, the standard operating procedure was to use a wire spreader with two snelled hooks, each baited with an emerald shiner.
Each arm of the “perch spreader” at that time had a small nickel-finish blade at the end and the pre-tied, long-shank snelled hooks would also usually have a shiny spinner blade and red bead at the eye of the hook as an added attractant.

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