When asked during the BassFan interview, after winning the Stren Northern Open tournament on Lake Champlain, about winning gear I told them I used a 2/0 Ohio Pro Sure-Grip worm hook. Well that little secret is out now.  

I was fishing weeds in 15 to 18 feet; a problem kept occurring, my lizard on my Carolina Rig was pulling down after snapping it off the weeds. The fish would hit the lizard after I would snap it through the weeds. With a standard style off-set worm hook the lizard was pulling away from the eye and balling up. After tying on an Ohio Pro Sure-Grip worm hook that problem was solved and resulted in a new dilemma. The new dilemma was trying to net 4 pound smallmouth that had no interest in being netted. Without the Sure-Grip hook I don’t believe I would have had the success I had.

What the nice folks at Ohio Pro Lures don’t know is recently my son Joe and I won a Tournament of Champions event on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire resulting in our winning a Ranger boat. As Joe was working the docks with his Yamamoto Flappin’ Hog I followed up by skipping a Yamamoto Senko under the docks. We both had on Sure-Grip Superline EWG 3/0 hooks. The Senko and Flappin’ Hog never slipped down once.

Thanks – Steve and Joe Lucarelli