What is the advantage of red hooks?

[Danny Lang]

I like using red hooks, I use them a lot, gives me confidence when I got one tied on, because I have caught so many fish on them.

[wannabe fisherman]

Fishermen like them so much we also have chartreuse hooks .

[Ketchn]

we as humans don't see the world like a fish and often think certain colors help or don't and I have read what Skeet said before as well .
red is supposed to go away first , but that is based on human vision , have seen red line kill a bite before for sure and have seen red lures ketch fish better than others , bet fish see red different than us is me ....just saying

[Ketchn]

there is only one way to be positive for sure though , thru a fisheez eyes ....
strap one on and let's do this .....

[LA CrappieMaster]

I’m all for trying that lol. I was about to buy some more jigs and found myself looking for red hooks. I have no idea why, other than catching the fisherman not the fish lol


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[shipahoy41]

My understanding is this; in the UV spectrum red is the first color to get washed out to something like gray.
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I also believe there is something to using red in every presentation. I also believe it imitates blood from a wounded baitfish or the red from a gill flaring open. A few years ago I found some red and silver Mylar in the party section at Dollar Tree. The stuff was pretty and almost indestructible so I stated adding a tiny bit of the material on my fishing line above the hook. I think it and "Slab Sauce" really helps attract the fish to my presentations.

Here is a photo and a video of what I am talking about.

Mike

[Soonerdg65]

I know the theory is that the red hook imitates blood and wounded bait fish. But i'm not sure how that fish really perceive it. What I do know is that red hooks can and will trigger more strikes. Is it all the time? I can't say for sure. But I have two anecdotal instances that have made me a believer in red hooks. The first was probably 15 years ago fishing the crappie dock at my local lake. I didn't have a boat at the time so was limited to fishing these types of docks. There were probably 20 other fishermen fishing all over the dock. I was getting bites and catching fish probably 5 to 1 over anyone else in the dock. Several people wanted to know what I was doing different. The only difference in my presentation and theirs was that I was using red hooks. As an experiment I traded places with several anglers and always caught fish in the spots where they were getting few if any bites. The second was about 5 years ago fishing with a late friend of mine in his boat. We were both fishing minnows from the front deck. I caught 13 fish to his 4. Again, the only difference was the red hook. Again, this is just anecdotal information so take it for what its' worth. But now I fish red hooks with either jigs or minnows unless I just can't get them in the jig head I want to use.

[Ketchn]

been in a winter spot before where if the jighead wasnt pink you were in the audience and not the show.
likely imitating the pinked version of a dying shad is my thought and at another spot in the winter,if you didnt use a bg bleeding shad ,you got to watch them that was ketchn the fish with it , just saying .

[happycaster58]

Best I can figure- about 50 cents per pack!

[DockShootinJack]

They are easier to find if you drop them in the grass