Circle hooks.
I have tried them before without much success. Too many failed hook ups for pike.
However I noticed some size 3/0 Mustad Demon Fines in the depths of all the junk one acquires. I cannot recall the make of the others I tried and have discarded.
Yesterday as an experiment I rigged up some of these and used them on lip hooked dead roach and had the 3 pike I posted on HDYGO.
All, included the twenty one were hooked in the incisors making unhooking a dream.
Maybe it was using the trace/crimp set up making the hook fluid on a small loop that did the trick or the fact that these Mustads have a much more aggressive curved in point or even the lip hooking I dont know.
I have ordered a couple of packets on the bay of the next size up 4/0 to experiment before the spawning starts and its time to put away the pike gear.
I have tried them before without much success. Too many failed hook ups for pike.
However I noticed some size 3/0 Mustad Demon Fines in the depths of all the junk one acquires. I cannot recall the make of the others I tried and have discarded.
Yesterday as an experiment I rigged up some of these and used them on lip hooked dead roach and had the 3 pike I posted on HDYGO.
All, included the twenty one were hooked in the incisors making unhooking a dream.
Maybe it was using the trace/crimp set up making the hook fluid on a small loop that did the trick or the fact that these Mustads have a much more aggressive curved in point or even the lip hooking I dont know.
I have ordered a couple of packets on the bay of the next size up 4/0 to experiment before the spawning starts and its time to put away the pike gear.
