Hook Size For On 0.5 Blanks

[RayburnGuy]

Hey guys,

 

Is there anyone that throws the LC 0.5 and if so could you tell me what size and brand of hooks your using on it? The smallest hooks I have are weighting the bait down so it has a very slow rise when paused and that's not what I'm wanting the bait to do. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Ben

[Cougarftd]

I use a vmc size 8 on a .5 blank

[saltshaker]

^^^ What Phil said.

[jwfflipper]

# 8

 

Jeff

[RayburnGuy]

Thanks guys. I've never fished anything that small and required such small hooks. I fish a lot of shallow cranks that use a #6 and every time I hook something 7lbs. or better on one of those small cranks my heart stops beating and the lungs don't work until it's in the boat. When I see one come out of the water and the crank in her mouth looks like a BB rolling around in a match box I go into cardiac arrest. I'm getting too old for that.

 

Thanks again for the help everyone.

 

Ben

[saltshaker]

LOL!! Dang, Ben. I doubt you'd survive a redfish trip.    

[RayburnGuy]

Redfish?? eeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[Cougarftd]

I caught my personal best 7-lber on a #8 hook... if they are sharp and you bury it you will get them in.

[BobP]

Ben, as hooks get smaller, the quality or lack thereof really begins to show.  The best I've used are the #8 Gamakatsu round bends.  Same hard tempering as their other trebles, which means a lot on a smaller hook.

[saltshaker]

When I fished the coast on a regular basis, we found, when using jerkbaits and topwaters, that the smaller the treble the better chance you had of landing that fish..so it seemed. The smaller hooks just never came loose...so it seemed.

[RayburnGuy]

Thanks for the heads up Bob. I do like the Gammies as they are sticky sharp.

 

I'm just gun shy about tiny baits and small hooks Stan. The places I learned to fish were full of timber, hydrilla, stumps, laydowns, etc. and I lost so many good fish trying to use small line and hooks that I finally got so frustrated I put all that stuff away and started using heavier tackle. I have no doubt that the majority of the time you'll get more bites using smaller tackle, but the heavy tackle will put more of them in the boat. In the places I normally fish anyway.

 

Thanks again for all the help everyone.

 

Ben

[mark poulson]

I had some stripers bend out the #8 hooks on a Duo Realis spybait, and the same thing for some bass on a Zip Baits Orbit 80 jerkbait with #8 hooks.

But I find the smaller, lighter wire treble hooks usually bury past the barb more easily, so they don't get thrown as much.

If you have to horse a fish out of cover, you may bend the hooks out and lose the fish.

I stuck a 7 on a homemade spybait, and one of the rear treble #6 hooks had gone all the way through it's lower lip, so I had to use pliers to unhook it.

I was fortunate.  I was throwing shallow, up onto a sand bar, and then bringing my bait back out over a ledge, where the fishe were waiting.  My fish hit like a striper, and I had it on a crank rod with 12lb fluoro, so I just let it dive and tire itself out against my bend rod and thumb on the spool.  I had just caught a striper, so I that's what I thought this fish was, too, and the first I knew it was a largemouth is when I finally got it up to the boat.

I think you can see in the photo I was very happy;

[DingerBaits]

I use #6 Short shank on mine and they do well. Using Etex

[RayburnGuy]

Nice fish Mark. Now if we could just get you to smile when you catch a big one. lol  I've seen dogs eating briars that weren't grinning that much.

 

I tried some short shank #6 trebles Dinger and the hooks could still "shake hands". They also weighted the bait down enough to only allow a very slow rise. Which is fine under certain conditions, but usually when I'm fishing a shallow crank I want it running into things and deflecting off of them and heavier cranks just don't do this as well as one that has more buoyancy.

 

I've got some #8 VMC hooks ordered and will see how that goes. If they don't live up to expectations I'll probably try the #8 Gammies.

 

thanks guys,

 

Ben

Edited January 27, 2015 by RayburnGuy