sickle hooks

[crappie wannabe]

Okay guys, I am not exactly new to fishing, and do own a few sickle worm hooks. But what is the advantage of them, especially for crappie. Did I mention I learn S L O W. I like a lighter hook that i can pull loose most of the time when i get hung.

[vic n]

I like them because they are a fine wire and pull free of snags relatively well, and I like the wider gap. I get lots of really good hooksets with them. Another plus is that the wider gap allows me to use big fat baits and still have a lot of point and barb available

[skiptomylu]

For me it's very basic. First they are sharp as any and stay sharp. Then most of the time the crappie is hooked in the roof of his mouth with a Sickle so you loose less fish. Last by not least being this sharp is the only hook this sharp for this price! I know Eagle Claw came out with their Li'l Nasty, but they are a little different and they generally are not as sharp IMHO!

Skip

[Ketchn]

I like them because like skip sez they are basically VERY sharp .....
some claim fish stay on them better as well ....
beyond that I can buy them by the hundred pretty cheap as well compared to off the shelf prices

[skeetbum]

Having tried them for the first time, I was impressed. So much so that I bought 7000 in different sizes and began pouring my own. I have landed fish over 2lbs on a #6 hook because it was in the roof of the mouth. I never got those results with round bend hooks. #4 and #2 get a lot of play these days and some of what I bought I traded off, mostly the small ones, and the #1's were just too big for how I fish, but some guys love em. I do use some 1's in the bigger jigs I used in the colder months in TN but have since moved. Once the change is made, I don't think you'll go back. I can take 50 regular hooks in a pile and poke my finger into them 5 or 6 times and not get stuck, but do the same with the sickle's and I'll have several points into the finger doing the poking. I'll tell you what, I feel so strongly about this that if you PM me your address and common sizes that you use, I'll send you a few of each to try out at my expense. Look forward to hearing from you......Skeet

[Crestliner08]

I like their sticky sharpness as well. However, with their curved/beaked point, it makes it difficult to thread plastics on and get them straight. JMO!

[jackie53]

Sharp period and stay sharp.We have found the Matzou hook's the best on the trout water's sharp and stay sharp even after a day of catching fish after fish.Dragging through rock's .The short barb is the ticket in the Bar-bless trout zone's.On our trout water's.The trout folks are gobbling them up!!For Crappie we use the lil nasty's they are shaped more like a circle hook "great for kid's" who need a little extra to set the hook.The Matzuo's go trout fishing.

[liftbite56]

Switched to the Lil Nasty 2 years ago won't go back! Performance period, loosing less fish at the boat.

[Red190]

Sorry to impose, but will they straighten out at all if u get hung and if so can u bend them back well enough to continue using??

[warmouth]

They do straighten out on limbs and hang-ups, and do bend back.

I like the acute angle at the bend of the hook and think than when you get a fish hooked and bury the hook to that tight bend, there is less of a chance the fish can throw the hook. Less wiggle room on that tight bend than there is on a round bend hook.

I use them from sizes #2-#8