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| I am leaning towards using wide gap hooks on all of my baits. Does anyone have any opinions on this, good or bad, and if good what brand / model # of wide bends do you prefer?
thanks,
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Location: Land of the Musky | The main thing I look at when designing a bait is that the hook points are a little outside of the body of the lure (if it is a hard body lure). This way if a pike/musky hits it and you jerk the lure to set the hook their is a good chance that you will get a hook set as the lure slips out of their mouth. If the hook points are inside/under the belly then they may not even touch the mouth the fish. Just some thoughts when you buy your hooks and look at the various sizes. I think about these things a lot (sometimes too much, LOL) but I am sure a lot of guys have lures that do not have good hooking %es and I am sure (for some lures) this is why. Good question and I look forward to seeing others ideas/comments on this one.
JMO,
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Location: Kodiak, AK | I'm a big fan of short shank/wide gap hooks. I like Gamakatsu Finnesse hooks. There's tons and tons of wide gap hooks out there, and the Finnesse only go up to 4/0,w hich is on the small side for conventional lures, but work well for flies. If I could get 5/0 or 6/0 I would, but these work well. I like the wide deep "big bucket" hook gap.
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Location: Beaver County, Pennsylvania | Gamakatsu hooks are gradually being placed on all my baits that i can get away with a 5/0 treble. |
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Location: Browerville, Minnesota | I just orderd some of the new Muskie Innovations wide gap hooks in 6/0. Have been cutting all the hooks off of my Reef Hawgs and replacing with split rings and these hooks. Can't wait to see how they preform, but from just messing with them in the basement, they should do the job and then some. |
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