This is a fresh water forum but there is a common solution: use sharper and sometimes smaller hooks.
The small fine gold hooks in say size 10 work a lot better for spot and small kingfish than
most but not all commercial rigs.
So given this is a freshwater forum (
) when, for example, I am fishing freshwater for alewife ( when it was legal) I'd use a modified sabiki rig... Fewer hooks and sometimes the feathers off...just out of convenience rather than tying my own...those hooks work great on spot
