if i make a 1 inch stinger by the time i use the 2 sleeves which are a 1/4 inch long theirs not much wire left would you attach at the main hook i have thought of making mine short for the simple reason that i jig hard pound the bottom and the stinger can get wrapped around the jig eye but i catch fish last year i used a 1 ounce dark purple with a strip of flash and i caught bigger fish while there was days the boat landed a lot of shorts i was catching 3-5 pound fish and then i lost it i was using 15 pound braid the fish was huge seen it then it dove down by the out drive line got cut probably on prop me with 3 hundred jigs on the boat had to go home and make a dozen then got sick and never made it out again