Big Hooks Not Necessarily The Best......

[Seafever]

Missing a lot of fish?

Could be here's why:-


http://www.topfishingsecrets.com/a/Mighty Big Thing about Small Hooks1.pdf

 

[RageWelding]

If you guys are missing fish you should really look into the 510 Gamakatsu single assist hook. These things stick the first time every time!

 

[Dogbreath]

The man is an idiot plain and simple-what kind of retard kills a fish that's black as a lawyer's heart?

 

[adanac]

I agree with SteelyDan, i have nothing but good things to say about the 510 Gamakatsus, been using them for awhile now and love them.

 

[Seafever]

DoggyBreath:- I dunno......but if you watch the fishers outside the pulpmill at the beginning of the river in late September in Port Alberni catching blackened salmon, there's a boatload of mentally challenged people around......


I think the whole point of the article centered on the idea that the bigger the hook and diameter, the harder it is to penetrate on an initial fish strike.

I know when we used to run strip, a lot of guys would use trebles that were tiny compared to the 6/0 jobs and bigger used on hoochies and spoons.

They whacked a lot of big fish with those tiny trebles.

 

[vetteman]

I like big hooks for big Chinooks.
Dave

 

[Sharphooks]

I'm with vetteman on that. It ain't the size of the hook so much as how sharp it is. Like "sticky" sharp. If I'm using whole Blue label herring, i step it up from a 4/0 to a 5/0. But I am continually sharpening them, especially after I pick up a ling cod or a rock fish.

I drop down in hook size if I go to a Red Label, but the attention to the point with a file doesn't change.

"Black as a lawyer's heart"---I like that, Dogbreath. But there are parts of the world where all the fish they catch look like that. We're spoiled out here with major chromage so we can be a bit pickier. Seeing a beat up dead chum like that is a bit puzzling, though. Did he actually eat it?