[tacklenation]

would anyone know where i can find 28° 29° 30° jig hooks? I wanted to try out some hooks for my swimmin jig molds. any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance, alex

[dampeoples]

Kim at Lurecraft sells a Mustad hook in 28*, it's the same hook that fits the Poison Tail jig.

[Gloomisman]

I've got a ton of them in 28 deg in 3/0 adn 4/0 shoot me a pm or email. these all are the ultra pt that fit the poisen mold

[tacklenation]

thanks guys,
i guess im also looking for hook manufacturers as well. can anyone recommend any to me? gamakastu wants way too much for what im looking for and wont work with me unless i purchase 50,000 hooks oem. i cant just purchase that many hooks on a hunch that the hook i want them to make would work.

[Old man in the boat]

That's the problem with a custom hook. If It doesn't work you are stuck with it and you can't get a pre-prodution sample because they have the set-up cost issue. Then when you do get it done you can't sell they by themselves.

That's a lot of the reason why guys are still custome bending hooks or using a hook adapter.

[tacklenation]

thought of the hook adapter idea but they still bend on a solid hook set, and it throws off the whole bait. i guess i shouldn't say bend they shift inside the lead head.

if thats what it comes down to then i'll just make a hook bending fixture. again im back to making costum bending fixtures for each style hook.

[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.

[tacklenation]

well I know that the guy who own's the tackle shop down the street here told me that him and a bunch of vendors get together and make a purchase for a huge lot of hooks. and split them how many ways they need to. Has anyone or is anyone interested in doing something like that?

[Predator Bass Baits]

Tacklenation,
I need gama 604's in 2/0 3/0 and 4/0

[Munkin]

I would be interested in other 28-30 degree hooks? Owner cutting point in about .052 1x long shank would be perfect!

Allen