Mukiwa
Well-known member
Good evening guys,
So I don't know if that's the right way to discribe it.
But how many of you, when you buy your hooks, normally long shank Aberdeen style, which come flat, or any flat hooks, get two pairs of pliers, set one plier on the shank side of the bend, the other on the barbed side and give it a twist, so that the barb side is not flat with the shank anymore and turning the bend in a little more, not much though.
I have been doing this to my hooks, thinking that the point of the hook might catch the fishs mouth a bit better when setting the hook.
Not sure if it increases the catch , but was shown it years ago, and have come back to it of late.
So what are your thoughts
Cheers
Mukiwa
So I don't know if that's the right way to discribe it.
But how many of you, when you buy your hooks, normally long shank Aberdeen style, which come flat, or any flat hooks, get two pairs of pliers, set one plier on the shank side of the bend, the other on the barbed side and give it a twist, so that the barb side is not flat with the shank anymore and turning the bend in a little more, not much though.
I have been doing this to my hooks, thinking that the point of the hook might catch the fishs mouth a bit better when setting the hook.
Not sure if it increases the catch , but was shown it years ago, and have come back to it of late.
So what are your thoughts
Cheers
Mukiwa