Weekend fishing and DS Hooks
Instead of the partly cloudy and mostly calm day (today), I chose the
bluebird sky, high wind, post frontal day to go fishing this weekend. All
morning long, I pretty much couldn't get bit on anything other than a
jerkbait. And only one of the fish I caught would have gone even close to 2
pounds. But then I got one good trip down a certain stretch of weedline
that produced a couple slightly bigger fish, so I stuck it out a bit
longer. Then the jerkbait bite died. When it did, among the options I went
through was drop shotting, and that proved to be the ticket. 9 3 pound
class fishin in about an hour and a half saved the day. But in the middle
of it all, I broke off my DS rig. When I retied, I gabbed one of these
hooks a buddy gave me. Red Diacchi Straight Eye, Straight Tie, Wide Gap
hooks. The fact that thye were red didn't seem to hurt or help. they got
bit as regular as the black Gammy I'd been using. But I lost 3 of 4 fish I
hocked on them, and two of them felt like really good fish. After the 3rd
self-unhooker, I took the time to retie with my preferred DS hook, and
didn't lose any more. Can't really say that they are inferior, but I sure won't be trying them
again.RichZ©
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RichZ
Jun 14
2004
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| I'm curious From your description , you were using a D25Z Daiichi,, was it the same
size the Gammy was ? Was it tied up the same ? was the same lure used
and hooked up the same ? Could you figure out why it failed ?, was the
point checked for sharpness (normally these hooks are about as sharp as
you can get, was the barb checked, but this hook was given to you by
another, perhaps he had already used it, perhaps damaged ? I ask this because I have used these hooks, and have found them to work
very well in a drop shotting rig. I can't remember two fish lost when I
felt the full pull of the fish. Of course fisherman confidence is very important to any fisherman,,
stick with what your confident with. One hook, failing in one outing, can destroy confidence in it's style
and manufacturer, but one hook failing, really is not a test, if a
design is flawed. The way hooks are designed today, it's getting where each one has it's
won special application,, take it out of it's specific application, and
they don't perform as well as another designed for that application. Note*
To newbe's of drop shotting, not to you Rich One thing that must be understood when nose hooking a lure,, the further
back on the lure you hook it, (to a point of the fattest part of the
lure) a small hook does not allow for a good hook set,, you need to make
sure you have enough point sticking out, to get a good stick. I have
seen number 4's used where a number 1 was needed, the lure filled up the
gap in the number 4, making a good hook set almost impossible.
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Rodney
Jun 14
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