markcw
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Tubertini 808.
Same shaped spades and same leading angle. No difference on mine at all. No matter how much grief you have to give chub if the spades the same the spades the same. Unless yours are radically different to the norm.Maybe,or it could possibly be the shape of the spade,also it depends how much grief you have to give chub and how big said chub are....
Is the fact that the line coming from a spade end being in line better than the slight angle made from a knotless knot - no it is not! Also the knotless knot is actually a stronger knot - whatever knot is used for spade ends and having the slight angle with a knotless knot aids hooking.
I do have one slight reservation with the knotless knot and that it should be tied twice on each hook. That means that the line passes through the eye three times not twice. The hooks that I mainly use for roach are fine wired and have a very small whisker barb, the Kamasan B525. They come in small sizes but unfortunately the biggest size is only a 12. Other hooks used for roach are the B980 and Animal eyed. Unfortunately the Gamakatsu GP106 hooks are no longer made.
Right,after going to a tackle shop Thursday and bought two patterns of Drennan hooks,one on recommendation,both were awful,not because of coming of the spade,as I didn't hook anything worth mentioning to do that,but as hooks period,one lost its point just putting maggots on???? The other had a very short shank which with my sausage fingers made it very difficult putting maggots on,my next stop will be Rob's B510's
Hate to say it but why buy short shank hooks if you cannot hold them ?? You did see them before you bought them.
Alan, have you looked at the drennan wide gape carp or margine carp hooks.
I've never seen them in the flesh but just been checking them out on drennan website and they go down to a 20's.
Well the hook I said was very short in the shank was the wide gape carp in a 20 Ian,i'm beginning to doubt the hook industry
Barbless Super Spades are just called Margin Carp. Same hook they always were just renamed. And guess what ? They sell more !I think kamasan animals are made down to a size 20s and in both spade and eyed.
Superspades and animals are my most used hooks, although I don't think superspades are made in barbless, just microbarbed.