Getting a TK to suspend

[NEbucketmouth19]

I've been putting my TK to good use with the water getting into the 40's here in the Northeast. I've heard people talk over and over about fishing these like a jerkbait. Are you guys able to get these to truly suspend? I'm fishing a low-float, stock lip, gonna play with the stock tail vs. V tail. I've been using like 5 or 6 suspendots (gonna pick up more strips soon). It still rises more than I want and I don't wanna change the color to silver polka dot if you know what I mean haha. How many dots/strips have you found it takes to suspend, or am I better off playing with hardware and upping the hook and split ring size? 

[xxlbass]

need a nogales grenade clip weight

[Micahs245]

I’ve gotten small tungsten drop shot weights and put them on split ring with the from treble never seem to get in the way 

[Azfishinadventures]

I use the weight strips on the belly of the bait one gram per strip and I’ve got it to suspend for almost 5 seconds before slowly starting to float, that’s with 3 grams added  Best bet IMO would be to start with 2 strips just behind the second hook and add on top of the two strips. I do it on both the klash9 and Tk.  I’ve seen people add the weight in front of the second hook and on the nose as well, it  just hasn’t been productive for me like that. Hope that helps some. 

Edited November 8, 2020 by Azfishinadventures

[NEbucketmouth19]

Has anyone played with feathered trebles at all on these? What I've done on some glides before is take the hook and wrap the shank in some lead wire and then heat shrink it. It comes out pretty clean aside from the heat shrink being black. But I was thinking maybe upsize the stock split rings, go up a size on the ST-35s they come with, and then do the hook mod with lead wire and add some small feathers to dress up the heat shrink a bit. But I'm not sure how much that might deaden the action. If I go that route it'll be a winter project and I'll make a post detailing what I did if it works well. 

[bassbass]

Storm lead strips on the hook shank

[El_Weruso]

Try different hooks to get it to sit low then move to different weights of lead strip if need. It's how I tuned my K9 and TK

[pondbeater]

I used 4 on the front half and a half a strip on the back. 2 in front of front hook and 2 right before the joint and it suspends, sometimes sinks

[chevro1et]

55 minutes ago, bassbass said:

Storm lead strips on the hook shank

This is the cleanest method in my opinion. 

[chefchris]

Storm strips on the hook shank, the shrink tubing over it, super clean looking and no silver flash 

You can usually do 2 to 4 strips depending the hook size/shank 

[Mossypumpkin]

I do the storm strips on the belly. Two in front of the hook and two behind it. The strips are heavier than the dots. You wanna tune it so it sits slightly nose down if possible 

[NEbucketmouth19]

Thanks guys I'll try the strips around the hook that looks clean!

[Azfishinadventures]

1 hour ago, chefchris said:

Storm strips on the hook shank, the shrink tubing over it, super clean looking and no silver flash 

You can usually do 2 to 4 strips depending the hook size/shank 

I agree this looks way better!