If you haven't already, go ahead and thank Rob for calfishing, and Nico for well, rocking.

Talk about full disclosure. I'm a huge fan of full disclosure on certain things. Huddleston Rigging (and rigging in general) intrigues the hell out of me. This will save you YEARS of trial and error, say pay attention here. The Huddleston is my #1 swimbait, the bait I spend more time on than anything. (Side note: look for new discussions here when Ken releases his weedless bait. Can you imagine a completely weedless Hudd?)

I am going to try and summarize my Hudd rigging via pictures and take offs of Nico's post. I too use #4 and #2 super duty trebles, hyperwire rings, however I use 80# mono and double barrel crimps to complete the belly harness. I use cut paper clips to hold the harness to the belly of the bait cleanly.

I use ST-66 Owners. However, I've used the Gammie kind too. Nico, I have bent them out, too. I've bent out the ST-66s too. So, still there is that risk in my mind, but very less likely, I'll tell you that with the super xxx trebles.

Bent Gammie #4 rear, notice harness rigging:



http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/7112-bent_gammie.jpg


I've found if you get a bunch of tiny corks from Janns Netcraft (used as popping bug bodies by fly fisherman) you can use these corks to cover your hook points for hook masking. I use spray paint and go to town, a bunch at a time. I used to do it by hand with nailpolish. Painful. This works great, lots of coats:



http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/7113-hookmasking.jpg


Finally, I mask all components to my rig. The hooks, the paperclips, the barrel crimps. Put the crimps on a strand of 80# prior to painting, that way you don't get excess paint in the holes where the crimps won't go on the leader material easily:




http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/7114-terminalrigging.jpg

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