FFF Day at Deer Creek 9-25-24

[TubeDude]

Great report, the images showing your set up has given me inspiration to copy you. I know what I'm going to do with my whirley fligs that have lost or mangled hooks. I'm going to repurpose the hardware into worm harnesses for Walleyes.

Good thinking.  I know the guy who makes these things so I have "reworked" a few into different types.  But I also purposely rig a lot of them as either basic crawler rigs...or "SCRs" (short crawler rigs) while making them up the first time.  I even make some rigs with a "drop back" design...with the whole crawler rig trailing a few inches behind the whirly flig...or the new buzz fligs.  If you know basic snell knotting and crawler rigging it is simple to rework a broken-hook whirly flig into a crawler rig.  I'm guessing you have done a few over the years.