What is the advantage of red hooks?

[DockShootinJack]

skeetbum that is interesting about the red light. If that is the case I wonder if a submersible red fishing light be more affective in attracting bait fish at night than the normal green ones they sell?

Give new meaning to red light district

[skeetbum]

skeetbum that is interesting about the red light. If that is the case I wonder if a submersible red fishing light be more affective in attracting bait fish at night than the normal green ones they sell?

Beats me and I don’t fish a night here. The big skeeters come out down her after dark, got numbers on their sides. And they be hungry!

[Micanopy]

We fishermen are pretty much gullible. For decades experts have claimed that red disappears in just a few feet of water. That the wave length of red gets absorbed.

I was snorkeling in the springs and had brought a bright red glass bead with me to test this theory. Hovering over a large hole 30 feet deep, I released it. I was able to watch it the whole way down, and could easily see it once it settled onto the bottom. The red was visible no problem at all. I have seen charts where red disappears within five feet. LOL

Surf fishermen still believe that a bright orange bead matches the egg sacks of sand fleas. That pompanyo see that orange and bite. Well I spent years trying to correct that one. Sand fleas stay pinned hard to the bottom, and you never see their orange eggs. So it is impossible for the fish to see bright orange and get tricked into thinking they found a sand flea with bright orange eggs. The only time you see the eggs is when you have them in hand and are putting them onto the hook. There is a flap you have to lift up to get a peak at the eggs.

I read here all the time that unpainted jig heads will out catch painted jig heads. Maybe so, but could that be because gray is a color, too ? I mean those unpainted heads have a color same as the others. Then the old ‘eyes - no eyes’ stuff flares up and that one has gotten me a few times. Of course you don’t need jig heads with eyes to catch fish. So what ? Will I add eyes to my jigs, or should I skip all that and go with a blind jig ? Total guess at this point. I choose eyes.

Then there is the Moon stuff and Solunar and things that allow us to so easily understand complex processes. We know so much about these stupid little fish. Yup- starting at 10:37 a.m. on Thursday the fifteenth, I will be tearing the fish up. Don’t go Tuesday, the fish will not be biting.

Then there is the fluorocarbon line disappears thing. It is carefully explained that flouro line, due to it’s molecular structure, puts on an invisibility cloak. Think about this for a second. If it’s molecular composition renders it invisible……. that would mean that 400 lb flouro leader material would also be invisible underwater. Do you think 400 lb flouro leader is invisible underwater ? Hmmmmmm…… maybe the best way to get some invisibility is to reduce line diameter, and save some cash buying line.

We hear things like- You should have been here yesterday. Yes, we should have been, but life got in the way…… we are here now ….. so now what ?

When I was a young man learning how to hunt deer, I was so jealous of the guys that always got a big deer every year. I thought man those guys know how to hunt. They must know how to find the best places to hunt. I bet they rattle horns and grunt call and use scents and decoys. Well turns out that I stopped thinking those thoughts when I discovered that they all had one thing in common. None of them had jobs. Yup, they could sit in their deer stands, anytime they pleased, and time spent was why they killed big deer.

Fishing is same same. If you are out there all the time you will learn some things about the fish. What their favorite colors are, which is far more important than what our favorite colors are. Maybe they stop biting after a cold front pushes through. Maybe they have moved clean across the lake in the dark of night. Maybe they feasted last night and have full bellies. How does one actually know these things ?

Like I said, we will believe in just about anything, if we believe it will help us catch some stupid fish. Gullible. I believe in UV light enhanced lures. Do I have anything to backup my preference ? Absolutely not. Will I continue to espouse the virtues of UV enhanced lures on this forum ? Absolutely I will.

I used to tell newbies to surf fishing when they asked for advice. Go make friends. Watch what the others are doing. Sure - reading on the webs is a huge help, but seeing what the locals are up to is priceless. The guy that always seems to have plenty of fish might not be the guy to emulate. He might just be the guy that gets to go all the time. For him, none of these things matter because he is out there on the days the fish are cooperating. The rest of us, what have lives, are the ones desperate to understand what cannot be understood. Some say confidence is key. No actually being out there fishing is key.

Then there is the all time favorite explanation about fish behavior. Being lucky. Yes, I know a few guys that can catch fish in a mud puddle in my driveway. Me….. I have to work hard as luck knows me not. I watched a man catch a four pound pompano using a bluefish rig and he didn’t even know what he had. Amazing thing that luck stuff.

Would I choose a hook simply based on it’s color ? Hmmmmm…… no I don’t think I would.

[~Joe~]

Well I hafta admit I buy just about every new gadjit that comes along including red Hooks [smile]
Best/joe

[Ketchn]

some of my buds like them there black nickel hooks , wonder if that has any play ....