DV

Please explain your rigging for mooched herring. Is it a single hook set-up or tandem rig like we currently do with standard octopus hooks for plug-cut herring.

Californians fish anchovies rigged backward (terminal leader threaded thru the tail end and exiting on the head end to the hook) with a single barbless non-offset circle which virtually eliminates gut- or gill-hooking.

Traditions in the PNW die hard, so if a transition to circles is to occur, I would think we'll have to find a way to make them effective for plug-cut herring.
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