Wooly Bully:

Double singles are okay in WA's so called "single hook only" salmon fisheries, but on the river Predator Dawg and I refer to, you are allowed but one single point hook, no exceptions.

If you extrapolate the percentages I posted above, you can see that on a bad day only half the strikes end up at the boat... on a good day it might be closer to 80%. I was just looking for a set-up for a solitary hook that might perform more consistently than that. You know, for those times when the river gives up one strike the whole day, it would be kinda nice to have odds better than 50:50.


To all the rest:

Thanks for all the good feedback. Maybe since so few guys in the PNW use one single hook on their Kwikfish, I should have started a poll asking,"which hook do you more often hook a salmon when using a Kwikfish, the belly-hook or the tail-hook?"

Personally, when I used to fish tandem hooks on these plugs, the vast majority were hooked in the mouth by the tail hook. During the fight, the belly hook would then frequently snag the fish across the top of the head, through a gill plate, or perhaps a body snag if it was an especially small fish. That is where most of the belly hookups connected. The scarcity of mouth hookups with the belly hook may well have been because I attached them with only split rings, no chains to let the hook "hang back".