Northwest Fishing Reports

I bought a different style of plastic worm hook while in Louisiana recently. Don't remember the manafacturer, but it has a wire from the eye of the hook down to the barb. Of course it's a weedless wire... I was just wondering if you guys like these type of hooks with the weedless wire or not? I questioned whether it will cause you to miss hook-sets or not? It releases of course when pinched, but you have to pinch/bite hook in the correct direction. I did miss a couple of hook sets this morning,, but they likely were dink bass. Anybody use these?

I use the Keeper Hooks. There made by Mr Twister.

Trent Hale wrote:I use the Keeper Hooks. There made by Mr Twister.

Trent,
Are those designed to be weedless or just to help keep the bait on?

Quad, can't say I've got much helpful info, but...
I've tried using a couple of different weedless hook styles. One had a wire that ran from the eye to the point of the hook and worked ok, but it'd still get hung up on occasion. Another had a springy wire loop that was positioned in the same fashion, although it rested behind the point of the hook and couldn't be brought around to the the front of the point, so that when it was struck, it'd fold back to the shank (hard to articulate how it looked). That one worked better, but I moved away from using either of those styels and went back to fishing the edge of the weed beds. Since living on the west side of the state, like fishnislife, I've adopted the T-rig style and have adapted other hook/bait setups to this method also and that seems to work just as well. Although I can't say it's helped me hook up fish, it does seem to keep me from hooking the weeds.
I can't say whether the wire prevented hooking fish or not as I didn't have much luck with the weedless hooks to begin with.
Let us know how they work when you test'em some more.

If you are talking about the ones with the springy wire loop that runs from the eye down to just above the barb (old style weedless), I used those back in the early 70's and don't think I missed any strikes because of the wire.

I'm using a jighead now that has a screw on the eye (to screw the worm/rubber thingee on) and then barely poke the hook thru the worm/your choice of rubber thingee and I've noticed I can throw them in weeds and get them back.

Dilbert turned me on to them, it's a shakey head jig with the screw.

Also got some EWG worm hooks to play with and they look to be about as weedless as the shakey heads.

Used Keeper hooks in the past. The ones I used had the bayonet-like barb from the eye and the worm had the hook poked mostly thru it.

Did the hook you speak of look anything like this...

fishnislife wrote:Sorry Chris, I have never really used or liked these hooks. Not to say that they won't work but to me to have something in the way of a proper hook set is no good. One more way to miss a fish. T-rigged plastic stabbed back into the body has always worked for me. If I'm fishing heavy cover and feel the hook might snag into vegatation I will just bury the T-rig more into the plastic. I'd rather hook-set through plastic then metal. JMHO

Most hooks like these are designed for live bait anyways.





fishnislife

I agree totally

There are weedless wormhooks out there and Kevin Van Dam uses something simliar on wacky rigged worms however instead of wire he uses 50lb mono loop. I have used the weedless worm hooks when I was younger however lost interest when EWG hooks came out. Either way it's really a preference thing. Gamakatsu makes them as well.

http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0030842112947a.shtml

quickfish12 wrote:There are weedless wormhooks out there and Kevin Van Dam uses something simliar on wacky rigged worms however instead of wire he uses 50lb mono loop. I have used the weedless worm hooks when I was younger however lost interest when EWG hooks came out. Either way it's really a preference thing. Gamakatsu makes them as well.

http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0030842112947a.shtml

Quickfish,,

Yeah, that is the exact hook I am talking about. Thanks guys.