http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/small-hooks-%e2%80%93-big-hooks-what-do-you-reckon/ News from all our French carp lakes plus general info useful to carpers everywhere Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/small-hooks-%e2%80%93-big-hooks-what-do-you-reckon/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 scott bradbury Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:07:04 +0000 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/?p=369#comment-1084 i have never used bigger than a size 6 and go as small as a size 10. i will mix and match big baits with small hooks when the fish are really easily spooked just to up my odds of the take. an anglers judgement is what matters... if you are not confident in what you have on the end of the rod, you are going to feel uneasy about using it and probably not leave your rigs in to soak long enough to have a run... feel confident in every tactic you apply and you will succeed. kamazins are the sharpest hooks i have ever found. Im the kind of angler tha will spend an hour in the shop and open all the packets of hooks im looking at, testing each one for sharpness against the other. kamasin have never let me down and it all comes back to the confidence thing again with your setup. i have never used bigger than a size 6 and go as small as a size 10. i will mix and match big baits with small hooks when the fish are really easily spooked just to up my odds of the take. an anglers judgement is what matters… if you are not confident in what you have on the end of the rod, you are going to feel uneasy about using it and probably not leave your rigs in to soak long enough to have a run… feel confident in every tactic you apply and you will succeed. kamazins are the sharpest hooks i have ever found. Im the kind of angler tha will spend an hour in the shop and open all the packets of hooks im looking at, testing each one for sharpness against the other. kamasin have never let me down and it all comes back to the confidence thing again with your setup.

]]> http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/small-hooks-%e2%80%93-big-hooks-what-do-you-reckon/comment-page-1/#comment-964 Jon Perkins Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:54:49 +0000 http://www.anglinglines.com/blog/?p=369#comment-964 The old advice of small bait small hook, big bait big hook still true today. I never use bigger than a 4 and have used size 4 hooks with 3 x 20mm baits when trying to avoid small carp - it works even though it looks weird ! With one or two grains of plastic on the hair a size 8 or 10 is perfect. The old advice of small bait small hook, big bait big hook still true today. I never use bigger than a 4 and have used size 4 hooks with 3 x 20mm baits when trying to avoid small carp – it works even though it looks weird ! With one or two grains of plastic on the hair a size 8 or 10 is perfect.

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