Deadstick hooks

[jigmeister]

I love catching perch and crappies on jigs through the ice. But there are times when a plain hook and minnow under a slip bobber is the ticket. With all the hook styles, sizes and colors to pick from, I would like to hear some opinions on which is the best for this presentation. Lets hear some ideas!

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[hunt4food]

I don't even buy standard colored hooks anymore. I use red hooks and the new glow hooks almost exclusively year round.

[fiskyknut]

I like Kahle style hooks for these type presentations. Size would depend on species targeted and type/size of bait. People will chime in with the circle hook, praising the merits of these for C&R fishing, they are excellent in this respect because you hook way fewer fish than you would with other styles.

Regards....Fisky

[Guest]

I like mustad tru-turns in the number 4 size.

[Guest]

I would recommend you give Gamakatsu octopus style circle hooks a shot.

Colour options including luminescent, a very good hook for deadsticking!

EAGLE CLAW L701 LAZER SHARP FEATHERLITE LIGHT LINE SNELL. A fluorocarbon leader pre-rigged option, a good and very light hook.

VMC also manufactures some darn good circle hooks.

No matter what brand you do chose, think thinner wire for walleye and panfish on any circle hook. Heavy wire and larger gaps for pike and larger predatory fish.

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[hunt4food]

I have a nice long slender needle nose. I realize that once in awhile a sunny must sacrifice his life for me to enjoy my hobby, but I guess that's the way it goes when I am at the top of the food chain. I can't remember the last time I caught a bull head.
Sometimes the pliers scrapes the paint off and them I just replace it. $20.00 worht of hooks in a year isna drop in the bucket compared to everything else. heck, I just spent $7.00 for a dozen shiners yesterday! If the pike like them all winter as much as they did yesterday, I am going to have to talk to the wife about an advance on my allowance. Who knows, maybe I will get a gift certificate for the local bait store in my x-mas stocking?

[Crawlerman]

Heh... that would be something; find a certificate reading "bring this in for 2 dozen shiners" in the stocking. I allready got my gift for the season: That new auger.

[Guest]

I started using the circle hooks about two years ago and think they are great. Heck, half of the time the bobber has set the hook for you with those hooks. If you just steadily apply pressure and reel instead of the traditional "setting" of the hook you should end up hooking more fish than you would with a standard hook.
Hope this helps!

[Steve Foss]

Guys, thanks for the reminder about circle hooks. I've used them several years for catfish with great success, and I'd been meaning to get smaller ones for deadsticking and bobbering on ice.

Now they're on the list!

[Guest]

Long shanked aberdeen hooks for me. Tip it with a crappie minnow and place a split shot 8 inches up and your set. The pound test of the line depends on where I am or what I'm after. Sometimes presentations other then plain hooks come into play but I'll typically start with plain hooks.

Good Fishin, Matt.

[kwkfsh]

Fisky, circle hooks work great and it is the rare fish that is hooked anywhere but the corner of the mouth. These have to be used a little differently than a regular hook in the fact that you do not ever, under any circumstances set the hook or you will just pull it out of the fishes mouth. Circle hooks are self setting, all you do is let the fish have the bait as long as appropriate and then take up the slack and reel the fish in. With these hooks swallowed hooks are a thing of the past. Even if a fish swallows the bait the hook will come out of their throat and hook in the corner of the mouth 99 percent of the time. Once you get the hang of them you will hook a higher percentage of fish with them than a conventional hook.

[Crawlerman]

Hunt-- what do you do about the bullies and sunnies that like to swallow them? Must be a pretty penny losing them that way.