CrazyFish

Just curious..........where do you guys buy your devcon?

I can always find some at Home Depot.

I have to agree with Clemmy on this subject. I simply don't make a crankbait anymore that doesn't get triple grip hooks. I will always go with the short-shank in this hook and I promise you I can tell a difference in keeping fish pegged over the more traditional round-bend hooks.

Matt is dead on about not doing it to build a rod for less of a cost. Just not the case and certainly not when you consider the amount of time you spend building a rod. Once you pick a quality blank, reel seat, guides, thread, clear coat, grips, etc, etc........you've got a lot of money into a rod. But, it is a great hobby and, if you get good and rather fast at turnign rods, you can build for a few bucks on the side. I do it so I can build technique specific rods......really, technique specific, not just because a rod says it's a spinnerbait rod or a crankbait rod. The rods I build are for specific types of cranks or weights of spinnerbaits or worm rods, etc. It is truly amazing what you can do when you know what you want and the hours on the water to be very creative about what makes a better fit.......good luck!

The color red is one of the first colors to transition to brown, then black with the loss of light. Typically, the deeper the water, the less light. The same can be said for low light conditions, murky water or on windy days with wave action, which also cuts the ability of light to penetrate water. A red hook, lure, line or anything for that matter, will be black without enough light to refract a red. That being said, it would seem reasonable that on shallow running lures, using red might be a good option, but with lures that are deeper than, say 5 feet, the color red will transition to brown, the ultimately transition to black. Personally, I use red hooks on shallow running cranks or medium cranks in water that is gin clear, but I can't tell you if it catches me more fish. I just think it does. Laughing