Big Fish Adventure are renowned for their quality and innovation in the arena of carp terminal tackle.
A close inspection of these hooks reveal that they have a slightly in-turned eye, an offset shank, a good wide gape and a very sharp in-turned point.They are whipped up the shank with a black Amnesia D loop, to which a quality stainless ring is attached. 
The whipping is of a good even quality with a minimum amount of glue/varnish and no excess was found around the eye or loop. The eyes of these hooks showed no sharp edges and were all closed properly.
The mechanics of these hooks are the same principle as Jim Gibbinson’s Line Aligner, this is used to good effect when wary fish pick up a bait and back away from the lead. The protruding tubing causes the hook to flip over and you are generally rewarded with a secure hook hold in the middle of the bottom lip.
This can be seen when performing the finger and palm tests, e.g. drop a baited rig over your index finger and gently pull it back over and watch it turn when the tubing touches the finger.
This style of rig is best suited to a supple braid hooklength, so I tied up two rigs, one of 15lb Merlin and the other of 20lb Snakeskin with 3″ of outer coating removed, to these I attached a bait via a bait band to the ring on the D.
I performed the finger and palm tests 20 times each for each rig, with the bristle cut back to 10mm, 7.5mm, 5mm (recommended) and cut off completely.
With no bristle at all, the rig just slid over my palm and finger, with either of the three lengths of bristle, the hook never rotated but the bristle seemed to jam against my finger, this I feel would not give any significant advantage or increased chances of a hook-up.
Obviously the mechanics of this type of rig do not lend themselves to mono or stiff hooklengths, but I tied up a 10lb Berkeley XL and a 15lb Korda IQ hooklength and performed the same series of tests. The lighter, more supple, hooklength came out with the same results as the braid, but the IQ hooklength was too stiff to even allow the bristle to take effect.
I have only performed bench tests on these hooks as I am not confident in using them in a real fishing situation, as I do not feel that they would give me any advantages.
I feel these hooks, which are a superb shape for general D rigs, would be better for not having a bristle, although with this ‘unique’ bristle they will probably catch more anglers than carp.
PRODUCT: Big Fish Adventure Skorpion Bristle Rig
PRICE: £ 4.50 packet of five.
