Lure help for Savage River

[Jay Blair]

I live in Butler Maryland and I have had a lot of luck ultra light spin fishing for trout in our local streams. Most of my success has come on spinners like rooster tails and vibrax, small tube jigs and other small lures My wife and I plan to fish the artificials only section of the Savage and I was looking for some suggestions as far as lures. I believe you are required to use single hook artificials only and that would mean modifying many of my spinners and crank baits.
Any suggestions on how to modify the baits, what type of single hooks to use and where I should place the single hook on a lure that normally has gang hooks.
My wife and I are not fly-fishers so any spin fishing lure suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks for you anticipated help and suggestions.

Jay

[mdram]

maybe just take the trebles off and put a single j hook of the same size on there

or try a small, 1/32 oz, jig.

[ocsnapper]

You might want to check out DNR web site I think that lures double hooks count as one not sure check out this site it might help clear things up
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries.../regindex.html

[TOO EZ]

http://www.woodaves.com/default.htm

[TOO EZ]

I have a ton of Possum Lures - Long story...

They swim real nice. I just did a search on the net and I'm not finding an active web site but they are coming up on Ebay.

http://search.ebay.com/search/search...=Possum+Lures+



I LOVE This one







It was an American made product at one time. 3 partner owned the company (2 Aussies and 1 American), Company went bankrupt and was purchased by another Aussie. Not sure what happened after '05 when the 2 Aussies that were running the company out of US - left the company to work for another lure company.

[esoxangler]

If you need single hook lures I would give some of the smaller storm lures a try. They make some really small baits. The trout will not know what hit them! Don't forget the smelly jelly.

[Jay Blair]

Thanks for the info guys, and Esoxangler you are right Storm does makes some great baits. Infortunately the discontinues my favorite which was the #TS06 thunderstick-2/1/2". I have checked the site and it is single hook only on hard baits and no tube jigs because many of them are scented and they are now considered the same as bait. I guess what I need to do is get some replacement siawash hooks and place them where the last treple hook was on the end of the bait.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated regarding trophy trout lures and treble hook replace options.

[esoxangler]

No tube baits because many of them are scented? WOW! That is a restricted area you fish. Never heard that one before. Many plastics are scented these days.

I guess the smelly jelly is out.

[mdram]

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries...avagetail.html

heres the dnr savage page

[Jay Blair]

Esoxangler,
It is the same deal with the Gunpowder, Morgan's Run and other artificials-only trout areas. Not plastic worms, critter replicas, or tubes because many of them are they are scented. No fish attractants either. Yeah it does make it tougher, especially when the trout have seen just about every fly, spoon, and spinner know to man.