Regular or Sickle Hooks?

[RagflyJigMan]

I have been making crappie jigs for near 25yrs now and I was wondering what most people like. Would you rather have regular hooks or the sickle hooks? I tie the jelly belly jigs with marabou tails.

[Redge]

I tried the sickle about 2 years ago, and really like them. Either will work, but if I have a choice it's the sickle hook for me.

[BuckeyeKdog]

Hands Down.. Sickle Hooks. A lot of molds need some slight modification to make then work, they have some inconsistencies that are aggravating but sharpness is amazing...

[Fatman]

I've bought a lot of sickles but I still pour the old round bend jig hooks. I'm sure not gonna toss thousands of hooks, and they're the old stock not the new ones. Caught plenty of fish on them in the past and still do. Some of the guys are trying the new Eagle Claw 2X light wire hooks and really liking them.

[snake River]

I use a variety of materials on my jelly jigs I use living rubber marabou in hair. I do not have a favored hits whatever the fish are wanting the day that I fish with them. as far as the hook goes I like sickle.

[skiptomylu]

Got hooked on Sickle hooks about 10 years ago and they are what I like best. I do of course use regular bend that comes on a Roadrunner, but anything I can use a Sickle on, that is what I want. They can be a major pain in the rear if that batch is not good because it can be anything from them breaking too easy to just not a closed eye or too small of an eye. Its not as bad as it use to be where you cow;d even find them with the barb ion the wrong side of the hook, LOL! Still nothing sharper that cheap!

Good to see you again Ragfly Jig Man!

[PA_Slabs]

Hands Down.. Sickle Hooks. A lot of molds need some slight modification to make then work, they have some inconsistencies that are aggravating but sharpness is amazing...

This sums it up. size #10, 8 and 6 are shorter to the eye than standard equivalent regular bend hooks. I just got done pouring and 1 of the #1/0 sickles was SO easy to bend it bent while I was taking the sprue off. I went back n checked all 400. Their inconsistencies are maddening. Super sharp but their tolerances and quality control are lacking...

[Cray]

Sickle. Black chrome.

["G"]

I prefer sickle hooks

[jigolo]

This sums it up. size #10, 8 and 6 are shorter to the eye than standard equivalent regular bend hooks. I just got done pouring and 1 of the #1/0 sickles was SO easy to bend it bent while I was taking the sprue off. I went back n checked all 400. Their inconsistencies are maddening. Super sharp but their tolerances and quality control are lacking...

the first batch of 50 jigs i did tonight i check each one and i can say there were some inconsistencies like one of the hook eyes were opened rather far for what it should have been and the jig eyes were not horizontal to the hooks. but at a angle for them self which would make them swim funny? any ways 1 out of 50 is not bad so far the hook eyes and not being perfectly strait is another. cant complain yet about them that much they seem decent for the $3.75 i paid per 100 and or $15 per 500 now if they are like tiemco ceramic chemical sharpened garbage hooks that shattered in the vise jaws constantly from thread tension. but they seem to be a better hook all and all any ways here is a shot of 500 of them i just got in the mail...

i also got 500 size 6 and 500 size 4 pictured and 250 mustad 32833bln's for steel head fishing in size 8 got those today form captain hooks ordered them on may 30-2014 and there a few day later all were in stock.

if those mustad bln's for $26.95 for 250 hooks i bought were the same as tiemco or sickle hooks i would make sure there was a recall or i would send them back. at $7.50 for "sickle" compared to $26.95 for "mustad bln's" for the same amount of hooks if the were inconsistent i would return them but of course there not no biggie but to worry about light wire Aberdeen hooks is not necessary i think.






also quick question how do you open the gap on the hooks up on the sickle is there a need to like regular Aberdeen's?