Thanks for your suggestions...

Had a few followers the other night, and thinking trouty tied on a #2 red gamy as a stinger hook 8" behind my buzz bomb and bam! First cast hooked up a 10lb fairly bright buck. A little later I watched a dark old buck rush up and hook itself...it had the canoe going in circles for a bit. When it tired the dogfish were latching on to it before I could get the hook out...(I ain't sticking my hand down there!)

Will have to try a spoon or a vibrax with a stinger as well...