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To make the salt-water plugs still stronger, use the "through-wire" construction method shown in Fig. 37. Here you drill a hole through the center of the plug body from the nose to the tail. Then drill larger-diameter holes in the belly of the plug which meet the smaller hole through the middle of the body. Next, make some hook hangers from brass or stainless steel wire. See the illustration of such a hook hanger in Fig. 38. Then get about a 10 in. length of brass wire or stainless steel wire, form an eye on one end, and insert the other end of the wire in the nose of the plug. Attach a treble hook to one of the hook hangers and insert this into the hole at the belly of the plug. At the same time, push the wire rod through the plug to catch this hook hanger through the double loop. You can easily test to see that the hanger is caught on the wire by pulling on the treble hook. After the first treble is caught, insert the second hanger and hook and catch that with the wire and then push the wire out through the rear of the plug. To finish it, form an eye at the tail, but before closing the eye slide on another treble hook. Figure 37. Through-wire construction and wire hook hangers. Figure 38. Two types of hook hangers used with through-wire construc- tion plugs.
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