I have used Sickle hooks almost 3 years and have not see what you found in the ones you got. I have other things that I am not pleased with, but I can look past the things that have shown to be a problem as long as it's not all that many. Speaking of eyes not closed, the barb not where is it supposed to be and other things like this. I mean some of them you just have to not use and as long as that is a low number I can live with them since I love how sharp they are and I like the big bite gap they have.
I am having a new issue now, but hopefully this will pass too. I sell way more jigs with Sickle hook than regular bend and almost all of the people that6 try them love them. I would not like what you have found, but has not shown up at my house yet. I probably have 7,000 or more jig heads in stock at all times with Sickle hooks of lots of sizes.
Never seen one with what you describe, but I would suspect that the ones you got came from the same batch or something close to that.
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