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| Does anybody know the real way to sharpen hooks? A way that will make them super super sharp? I know it might be alot to ask, but maybe someone could show a video. Thanks!!!! |
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Location: In a shack in the woods | i have one of the shur sharp sharpeners and i file towards the point checking every couple swipes. it gets hooks sharp enough that it will draw blood on me when i bump them. is that sharp enough? |
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| http://fishing.about.com/od/basicfishinginstruction/ss/Sharpen_Hook...
http://saltwaterfishing.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/how-to-sharpen-you...
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Location: Kodiak, AK | There's several different methods of hook sharpening. Have a look here-
I use a file, not a hone and I personally file toward the hook point and they get plenty sharp. I warn people about my flies after a buddy sliced his thumb open on one of mine. It's pretty easy to get a hook sharp with a little practice.
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Here, lets see if I can't make that bigger.....
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | i use barbless oh ya |
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| remember, the bigger the hook, the more you should sharpen. On my baits with 7/0 hooks, I sharpen like crazy. Never want to loose a giant fish just because you were lazy and didn't want to take the time to sharpen!! |
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| Just started sharpening hooks. Never really saw it being all that important but the forums convinced me that I need to. I bought the 4-5" luhr jensen yellow handled file from musky hunter store and was amazed at how sharp I could get them. Same as me though, I did not know the proper technique but ehat seems to work best for me is: first file the sides to a point, then lightly file the frontside up to the tip. That's the way I've been doing it now and they are definitely sharp, however, I would like to hear from more experienced fishermen the way they do it. |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | i use a dbl rattail file like smitys and gentley run it up the hook and turn as i do. gets them real sharp. |
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Location: Toronto, Ontario | http://www.luhrjensen.com/downloads/tech-sheets/565HookSharpening.p...
Best method I've used. |
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