Eagle Claw Lazer Sharp treble hook and trailing stinger treble hook. He'll go to lighter wire when fishing among a pack of boats and larger hooks when pulling blue runner baits. Single pogies are hooked through the nose, with the stinger hook inserted in the bait's side several inches behind the nose. When fishing double pogies, each is barbed through the nose on the stinger rig. The rig is modified with more hooks for ribbonfish, depending on the length of the bait.
Pitman typically fishes bare, unskirted baits.
On our trip, we slow-trolled on one engine just fast enough to keep the mix of baits behind the boat. The spread included a pogy on one downrigger, a ribbon on the other, single pogies on a flat line and a shotgun, centerline far behind the boat, and double pogies on a line in the prop wash. It may be because the chum is most concentrated right there. During tournaments, he'll take out what he needs and dispense it from a chum bag. Enter words describing a concept or keywords.