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Get your treble hook and cut a length of heatshrink tubing that is the length of the shaft of the hook. Make sure that the tubing does not cover the eye of the treble hook.
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Slip the heatshrink tubing over the treble hook shaft as shown in the illustration at the left.
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You can now install the split ring onto the hook. You now have the basic assembly for the modification to any lure in your tackle box.
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Install the hook, tubing and split ring assembly onto the lure you plan to modify. Once installed, you will have to coax the heatshrink tubing up from the treble hook shaft and over the split ring and on to the 'through wire' or screw eye of the lure you are modifying.
Once that is done, simply use a heat gun on the heatshrink tubing to shrink it snugly over the entire assembly as shown on the Tally Wacker.
This will work for any lure where there is a trailing hook except on tail wagging surface lures like the Hawg Wobbler. Try it on your Bucktails, spinner baits and almost any of your surface lures. If you don't like it, simply cut the heatshrink tubing off.
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If you look at the lure shown here, you can see that the tail hook is at a 90 degree angle to the 'retrieve plane' of the lure. Regardless of how fast you retrieve your lure, the tail hook will never be in-line with the body of the lure.
