Yes you can run your tt behind your boards, I just use the stock hooks. I have up sized them on some of my spoons, if I have a color that is working good and buy matching ones I just use the stock hooks, I only go up one size,to big and it will effect the performance. Tt 40s is what most of the charters use. You can listen in on the radio and get feet back sometimes,if you have charts, you can use that to run different lures or the same lures