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what is the deal with all the colored hooks for jigs? I have a Do It mold on the way to pour some jigs with. It accepts 570-575 Aberdeen hooks. I've noticed on Do It molds site that they have listed Bronze,Gold,Red,Craw fish,Chartreuse in colors.
I figure bronze is the cheapest and probably the most used but is there any benefit to using the other color hooks?
I'm gonna be pouring some 1/16 #6 hooks and 1/8th #2 hooks to start with.
The red colors carry the weight of the red theory like shakespere cajun red only the red is varnish and after a few fish or more it will go Gold! Red was the hotest thing going at one time and maystill be. I only use when requested by my customers, i can say for a fisherman thats going after looks red makes a nice jig!
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Red's a hype. The finishes are cheap and rub off after a while. Dip your own silver hooks in red lacquer paint and you have red finished hooks that look the same. I use bronze, gold, and black nickel. The fish don't care.
If the hook is shiny to begin with a red Sharpie marker works well. I carry one for touch ups out on the water when using red hooks.
all above statements are true. Also can use blade dip and make a semi-perm color change on hooks, blades, and even jig heads in a pinch and minimal time and expense.
Color jig hooks or any color hook is nothing but something to make customers bite and then disappoint them by the color vanishing soon after they start using them. Just buy a good sharp hook and forget about it. If you buy red hooks they will be red for a very short time and then you have a regular gold hook, LOL!
If you want a red hook get you some Sally Henson's Red nail polish and paint your hook red and it will probably last as long if not longer.
That is my opinion for anyone interested.
Skip
they are all true statements above i have bought red and chart. hooks and they last about 4 fish and even with out the color still catches fish so why bother. its a hoax to catch the fisherman not the fish. plus if you use those small hooks it wont make that big of a difference to have it in color. my theory is just use what works and that is a normal hook.
I'd keep it simple in the beginning and start with the bronze and gold jig hooks.If you want others later then go to a black chrome jig hook which is extremely rust resistant.I've gotten jigs wet and put them in a box and forgot about them.A week or so later the bronze hooks were rusting,the gold had started rusting but the black chrome baits were fine.I learned from my mistake.One more thing is buy sickle jig hooks,you'll catch more fish than with the aberdeens due to the wider hook gap.
Well I am not sure about smaller hooks as I haven't used many but for large hooks the red can make a difference for specie I fish for. Side by side a red hook can out fish nickel big time in low clear water for steelhead. Black nickel has proved even better. Might be a sight thing, maybe reflective index, who knows. I do know I have caught trout in a local lake on a bare black nickel hook and never on any other color.
The only reason I can see a red hook being better is that the fish can't see red after 10-12 feet anyway. This will make it vanish from site in deep water. Could it make a difference, maybe in clear water where the fish might see a reflection or glimmer of an off color and be turned away. Once the red starts wearing off it doesn't matter though, would it.
Nothing but the basic bronze and gold for me. Now if someone were giving them to me for free yeah I'd take them. But they're for catching fisherman
Fatman
Actually that's for transparent red colors under water, IE the Cajun Red line, and even then, it doesn't disappear, it turns a gray-blue. All colors do it, it's just the first in the color spectrum to do so. I hate gimmicks. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by fish_4_all
I prefer gold, don't seem to rust even after sitting in your box for a while.
Hook color does make a difference,
I agree with all the above no doubt but if were ever in the boat on an over fished lake and were using minnows and your trailing Me by about 10-15 fish the cost of those hook's just went up like gasoline in a hurricane! some days it dosn't matter some days it does very seldom do I fish anything when fish are very active that dosn't have a tinge of red some where you have to remember their predator's if they thing there's an easy meal they go for it! just My pratice.
Still learning slabology, but 1/16 #4 red hook jigs have been my fave so far.