Hoochies, Short or Long

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What length Hoochie works the best?

  • 1.5"

    Votes: 83 76.1%

  • 2.25"

    Votes: 26 23.9%
  • Total voters
    109
  • Poll closed .
MMM said:
I've had great success with the Silver Horde Hoochies in the ocean for Kings. What length are the smaller Hoochies?
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From the Silver Horde/Gold Star 2008 catalog...

#20 Gold Star Yamashita Mini Sardine...2 1/4".
#15 Gold Star Yamashita Micro Squid...1 3/4"
 
Thanks for the reply SB!

Do the microsquids have that same pressed insert with the flash in tail of the Squid? The really have built a better mousetrap when it comes to the Squids we use for Kings and Macs!
 
I've had fantastic success with pink hoochie the season. It out-fished everything else I tried, Wedding Rings, Apex, Dick Nite etc.. I long line with a 1 1/2 oz lead, 20" leader to a 0000 dodger and have a snubber behind that with 10" leader to my hoochie. Corn on the top hook and a Power Bait Gulp Maggot on the lower hook. I don't like to have use the maggot but if I get a strike, I figure that the corn could be gone and the maggot will still be there for a second chance.
 
one of my go to kokekiller rigs is a clipped off 1 1/4" hoochie trimmed back to about 3/4" with a small glow corkie shoved up part way between the dangling legs threaded on double hooks egg loop tied on 15lb florocarbon and about 10 inches behind a custom bent sling blade

that flashing corkie bulging out of the baby squid's behind being jerked all over the place by the sling blade up close drives 'em crazy. kokes are blood hungry predators and home protectors looking for something to kill at times.
they hit so viciously at times that the back trailing hook takes them in the guts or head with the front stuck down their gullet.
no thoughts of catch and release with this weapon
 
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Does he hoochie or dont he hoochie? Only his bar tender knows for sure. Oh wait, we're not talking about that type hoochie.. My bad!
 
I did pretty good with RMT glow in the Dark Hoochies last year. They became my number 1 go to hoochie right from the start. I always have them on one of my poles. Get down around 45-50 ft and they become essential.
101chromefish101
 
Yamasita/Gold Star came out with some "micro" hootchies last year. Very slendor same length as a RGT. They kicked some serious butt last year. Add one (1) 5mm glow bead but dont insert it. Just position it at the very base inside the tenicles. This will spead the tenicles out. Great action fished 8-10 inches from the dodger.

Mark
 
Mr. D said:
Yamasita/Gold Star came out with some "micro" hootchies last year. Very slendor same length as a RGT. They kicked some serious butt last year. Add one (1) 5mm glow bead but dont insert it. Just position it at the very base inside the tenicles. This will spead the tenicles out. Great action fished 8-10 inches from the dodger.

Mark
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Are these on the market someplace? I don't see them on their website nor have I seen them in stores. I HAVE seen them tied up by some tackle makers though, just not available that I know of to the public.
 
dlm,

The only place I've been able to get them is guns, fishin & other stuff in Vacaville Ca. I've got a buddy who lives there and picked some up for me. The have a web site and I'm sure they ship. Look'em up & good luck.

Mark
 
here's another source for the Goldstar/Silver Horde 1 3/4" micro squids.
http://www.tedssportscenter.com/minioctopus.htm

has both the double glows and the UVs

they're also a popular sockeye lure, the ocean migrating big brother of our kokes.

great tentacle action especially with a small buoyant 3/16 Lil' Corky ball up in the tentacles floating them open in the swing action from the blade/dodger
i like the luminescent pink or purple ghost Corky colors

full color chart
http://www.silverhorde.com/id153.html
 
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more of the lure ocean and river salmon guys are putting hoohies on their spoons.

even see hoochies being used by some of the springer guys on the Quickfish tail hook or in front of the herring rig.

i use them steelhead jig fishing instead of the maribou or flashbou feathers.

here's a couple other hoochie sources, in Canada but shipping is very reasonable.
http://nikka.ca/store/department/66/Tackle/

http://www.pacificnetandtwine.com/?cat=2328,2434,2435&SESS=225bdc41c639b06c2527c32ceceac75b&filter=

http://www.pacificnetandtwine.com/?cat=2328,2434,3157&SESS=225bdc41c639b06c2527c32ceceac75b&filter=

http://www.pacificnetandtwine.com/michaelbait.html
 
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For many years all I used were wedding ring spinners and double whammies. Last year I bought some assassin spinners I guess because of how similar they are to what I was comfortable with and had great success. I also decided to try some 2.5 inch pink hoochies because of what I'd heard and read. I was not disappointed! Hoochies will be a big part of what I use from now on. I guess the moral of the story for me is to not get into a rut and branch out with as much as you have access to. So many lures, so little time. tooexcited
 
try the new 1.5 hoochies from vance tackel doubled my fish count this year ended up with an average of 37 fish per trip if any one fishes Green Peter drop me a line I'll be happy to help you out
 
RalphL said:
why does this continually appear as a new post, is it advertising in disguise???????
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Someone probably just voted in the poll. Since this poll doesn't have an expiration date anytime a new vote is added it brings the thread back to the top of the page.
 
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