[cadman]

I'm sure everyone here at one time wanted to make an exotic jig with a different hook. Like you have found out, you have to buy hooks buy the 1000's if not more to get anyone to make a production run for you on a single style hook. It's not cost efficient for any company to do that unless they can recoup tooling costs, set-up, and then make money on the hooks. For us little guys having a hook made for production is very cost prohibitive. You can heat and bend hooks. Tempered hooks like your Eagle Claw #570, can be heated and bent real easily. Forged hooks like your bass hooks, are really not meant to be heated. You can heat them and bend them, but I know if you heat them you change the molecular make-up of the hook, and it will harden them. Hardening them will make them more brittle, and this would definitely make for a weaker hook. Also if you are making 100's of jigs, heating and bending jigs is not an option. You would eat up your profit really fast. That's all the info I know to maybe help you out.