With my spinner rigs, I have a rig ring on the hook shank stopped by a hook bead. I attach the pop up to this ring using floss and lasso the bait. I donโt pierce my pop ups as they are home made cork ball pop ups
Try it with a rig ring stopped by a hook bead on the hook shank๐
Then attach the pop-up bait with floss or braid lighter tagged.
You can also do Joe Turnbulls version with a mono D
Everyone that I've recommended HydroTuff to loves it.
It's quite unique as it has all of the benefits of a snag line (crazy good abrasion resistance and superb strength) but 'feels' like a low stretch or pre-stretched line. The responsiveness is as good as any mono I've used. It even casts ok in the lower diameters. The colour is great..... it's just a brilliant, brilliant line.
It was brilliant 20 years ago buddy but not even in the same ball park as HydroTuff. The Gardner stuff does everything the Trilene does but it casts better, is more responsive (lower stretch/better drop), behaves better....... just better in every way imho.