I'm in the same boat, I don't pour, but buy in bulk and tie my own. The hooks are Mustad and I've never lost a fish to a bent hook. Now I have backed away from the 1/6 #4's and upped em to #2 cause the #4s were ending up being "1-use jigs" (after one use they were toast) but still never lost a fish on one. Heck, I've bent em on a snag and just bent em back and still not had a problem. I can see if you have to horse a fish in where hooks will get bent, but if you have the room and play em right. But who knows, maybe It's just a matter of time..Rvr_fshr wrote:I've never bent a jig hook and I use the smallest 90° hook gami makes, I have no complaints!
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Re: Olympic peninsula winter steelhead guide
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Re: Olympic peninsula winter steelhead guide
yea i hear ya, if ya know how to play fish and have room your gonna be fine, but im always worried about some 18-20 pound steelhead heading for the rapids below and wanting to go into the next hole and bending the S**T outta my jig hook, so i step it up, hell ive bent good jig hooks on little hatch brats trying to pull um away from logjamsGringo Pescador wrote:I'm in the same boat, I don't pour, but buy in bulk and tie my own. The hooks are Mustad and I've never lost a fish to a bent hook. Now I have backed away from the 1/6 #4's and upped em to #2 cause the #4s were ending up being "1-use jigs" (after one use they were toast) but still never lost a fish on one. Heck, I've bent em on a snag and just bent em back and still not had a problem. I can see if you have to horse a fish in where hooks will get bent, but if you have the room and play em right. But who knows, maybe It's just a matter of time..Rvr_fshr wrote:I've never bent a jig hook and I use the smallest 90° hook gami makes, I have no complaints!
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Re: Olympic peninsula winter steelhead guide
if you bend any gami hook you are horsing the fish way too much, I like to get a good fight out of my fish that is why I fish cheaping hooks and 6lb leaders too with light action rods, mostly for summer fish though but I am going to try that tactic on the cascade since you have plenty of room to fight a fish except in the log jam. nothing more fun than fighting a hot summer run on a loomis float rod haha