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Originally Posted by TOO
I used a "Bazztex Special" popper with single hooks in front and back on the TFF Quatro Tuna trip. It was a wide open bite, had YFT all over the lights and had blowups on 80% of my casts. I hooked and landed one YF, had about 8 short hook ups before the hooks pulled or the lure pulled out of the mouth.
Don't know if it was my technique on the blowups on the popper, the single hooks, or something else. I know at the end of night the popper was marked up, but it was hard to actually hook up and fight a tuna. It was extremely frustrating yet a whole lot of fun to have that many blowups. Kind of a ying/yang thing. I kind of figure some of it was due to the singles not in proper position in the mouth to hook up, but that is just a guess.
We were on a party boat, so it isn't considered real hard core, I guess.
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Willie thanks for the email ... I found that when using singles you need to give it a second before setting the hook incase the single may be outside the mouth with trebels you have a better shot at a solid hook-set immediately because there is 3 hooks.
I let the Marlin suck it in and then hit it, it allowed for a solid hookup although I popped most of them off later on in the fight. I would rather use trebels on tuna