are you you using red hooks?

[double trouble]

i just answered another thread about changing to red hooks. I think it is another marketing ploy by the manufacturers to get us to buy their products. it catches more fisherman than fish. i put it in the same catagory as flying lures,walking worms ,and color-c lectors. how many of you are changing to red hooks? have you seen the results? we have enough members to get a good sampling of different results and an unscientific poll.even i fell for it for awhile when using single eggs for salmon but that may disguise the hook.red may aggrivate fish or signal blood but a red hook?if red was the answer ,then why don't we go back to red and white lures ,like in the old days.come on , give me your opinion. :fish: :bash:

[bgoodenow]

For the Walleye opener in Canada last spring I was outfished by my boat-mate about 3 : 1. I was using the same jighead we've used up there for years - - he was using a red hook. Fishing exactly the same water and conditions. Could be coincidence, but I'm using a red hook next spring.

-Brian

[Dunlap]

The few perch I have managed this year have come on read hooks. I bought several Lindy Techni-glo Frostee Jigging spoons with the bleeding bait treble hooks. I can't say it's the red hook or the fact that they glow so bright for so long. With this cloudy water I have been using mostly glow lures to help the fish find the bait. I do have a 5" red and white spearing decoy that I swear by for attracting pike and perch. Why are so many fish decoys painted red/white?

[wally-eye]

Last year I changed all the hooks to red on my crankbaits for summer. This winter I went to all red on my eye jigs and have to say that for me they have changed my luck. I can say for sure that I catch almost twice as many fish with the red hooks as I did with plain hooks. Summer or winter.

This is just my opinion, it has me convinced.

[stinger63]

Yep I have been using red hooks this winter as well as last year while fishing on my home port river.Well can I say it has made a difference for me?What do you think :help:

[Ed Stringer]

Your just kidding about the ploy part wright?? if you go back a few pages you'll see some facts I've put together using red hooks. They most definietly will make a differants. If you really wont to get one up on the others try using red circle hooks. I don't know about you DT but I still use red and white spoons and I still use red yarn from time to time. I'm no pro by any strech but I put about 50 hrs. a week on the ice and half of it is using new products.

[The Whale]

I've done enough fishing in the summer utilizing red colored hooks on my cranks to say that I'm sold on 'em for summer fishing anyway. I typically change out the front hook only on my cranks to a red hook. It has significantly increased the front end hook up ratio for me. Now winter fishing, well, I'm still experimenting and really don't have a solid feel for it yet, but I sure don't see a negative effect. I believe it'll pan out the same as in my summer fishing, a solid plus, as the fish are still keying in on the same. Good luck to you.

[DaveW731]

If you really wont to get one up on the others try using red circle hooks.

Experimented using red circle hook on tipups. Set out two identical setups, except one was with a red #4 circle, the other with a black#4 circle. So far, red has had 2x the number of flags as black.

[neil duffey]

when makeing my own ice jigs, i always use a red aberdean.

[Centrarchidae]

Is everyone that is using red hooks getting that many more strikes or just hooking up on strikes more frequently because they are putting new (sharper) hooks on an old favorite bait?

By the way, I changed a couple of baits to red hooks for a Northern Ontario pike trip last august and it didn't seem to make much of a difference. They just seem to hit everything :lol:

[XXXdisel77]

Well Centrarchidae that is like throwing a live seal or a fake seal to a great white. The darn thing doesn't care at all it will take whatever it can get. It would be hard to test this hook phenomenon with pike, because those critters will eat anything they can get hold of.