Red hook only

Last night I went out on my pier to get some rods to respool. While there, I decided to cast a few of them to check the line and how far they cast. Picked up my 5th rod with only a cork, weight, and red hook. About 1/2 way back reeling at a decent pace,,you guessed it...About an 8" black hit it. No bait just bare hook. Earlier in the evening, I threw everything in the tackle box to no avail. :bash

I do like a little red on a lure. I use jig heads with red sickle hooks. Apparently a little red fash was what it took to get a strike

Yup, :hesaid

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Originally Posted by Shoalwater Cat

Last night I went out on my pier to get some rods to respool. While there, I decided to cast a few of them to check the line and how far they cast. Picked up my 5th rod with only a cork, weight, and red hook. About 1/2 way back reeling at a decent pace,,you guessed it...About an 8" black hit it. No bait just bare hook. Earlier in the evening, I threw everything in the tackle box to no avail. :bash

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Yep...I had a bare Bass worm hook dangling in the water off a dock while I was trying to untangle my line when a big Bass hit it, and that was the only Bass I caught.

I have managed a bunch a big bream before on gold wire bare hooks in a farm pond , never a crappie though .
I have managed to ketch crappie on a bare jig with just a nibble though

Proves that sometimes they want it moving is what gets the bite VS color, size etc.


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I use red hooks most of the time, even walleyes

I have never had a fish hit a bare hook but I have had crappie hit the small slip floats I use.

Growing up, I remember dad taking us to a place trout fishing and them hitting a bare gold hook. Looking back it always was a sonny day too...

Last year my brother and I were crappie fishing in the spring. I had a knot in my reel and was messing with that. My line was dangling down in the water with a bare, gold hook. I felt a tug on the line and pulled in a nice perch. We laughed and so I put a line down with a bare hook to see if it was a fluke and caught another nice perch. We fished for an hour with bare hooks and caught several nice perch. Never happened again.

I try to have a little red in most of my hand ties.

I caught a crappie on a bare tru turn red hook last year.I was baiting rods up with minnows and one of the rods that i didnt put bait on yet started going and there it was.I dont know for sure if it was the red color that did it,but it impressed me enough that i bought a bunch more of those hooks.

I also ALWAYS HAVE a little red somewhere when I am fishing. It might be a red bead, a red eye on the jig, or a red hook because I think that the fish think that it looks like blood and the lure is injured. I also ALWAYS HAVE some Chartreuse somewhere on the lure just because it is a proven color to catch Crappie.

Mike

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Originally Posted by shipahoy41

I also ALWAYS HAVE a little red somewhere when I am fishing. It might be a red bead, a red eye on the jig, or a red hook because I think that the fish think that it looks like blood and the lure is injured. I also ALWAYS HAVE some Chartreuse somewhere on the lure just because it is a proven color to catch Crappie.

Mike

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My thoughts exactly