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Jul 23, 2020 06:16:38 #
Jul 23, 2020 07:35:56 #
Big dog
Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York
Wv mike wrote:
What kinda hooks are these. What is it used for, have you ever used one , will they work. What kinda fish do you target with them. Unscramble this bit of bait. WMONIN.
We use snag hooks to catch manhadden and sometimes bluefish.
Jul 23, 2020 10:43:54 #
Use to use them to snag herring during their run at Haines point in Washington DC Potomac river. Used the herring to catch stripers. Snagging them is now illegal.
Jul 23, 2020 14:36:03 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Yeah, snag-hooks. HAD 1, by a different manufacturer/ more weight, is what my memory is telling me, but it won't tell me where I last saw it. I bought it years ago, because we were allowed to snag Coho in some Ohio rivers, long ago; not sure of the laws, now. Never did use it.
Jul 23, 2020 15:37:18 #
Denny G.
Loc: Located in Central Michigan
Here in Michigan many years ago in my area of central Michigan we called them Croton Crawlers. They have but one use and that being to snag salmon in the fall when they were on their spawning runs. Glad that our DNR had them outlawed. I figure if you cannot catch them legally then you need some help and knowledge of fishing itself. Hope this helps.
Jul 23, 2020 16:03:52 #
Jul 23, 2020 17:08:54 #
Salty Chief
Loc: Niceville, FL
Snagging hooks good for getting a bucket full of Mullet her in Florida. Mullet are vegetarian so you either need a cast net and be slow sneaking up on a school or just grab the big hook and a stout casting pole and you can work the schools from a dock or jetty. Yum yum. Good grilling or pan frying fish.
Jul 23, 2020 17:30:03 #
Jul 23, 2020 17:47:53 #
It is a lost item retriever ! Unless you are in 60+ ft of water then it never seemed to work! L O L! Snagged a line that was 100’ plus long once that still had a trout on it. Must have been real hungry breaking off someone line so he could eat it. Don’t know who knocked the spare pole out of the boat but if I would have had somebody with me that day I would have been mad at them!😂🥴 Oh wait - nobody with me - lets rethink that one.
Jul 23, 2020 18:43:35 #
bottomcoon
Loc: Tahlequah, oklahoma
I've got the molds to make those snag hooks. As Oz said, they are the only way to get a spoonbill.
Jul 23, 2020 20:12:30 #
psyclops
Loc: East Central florida
Me and mine use those for snagging gators during the season down here in Central florida. What a hoot!
Jul 23, 2020 20:12:33 #
psyclops
Loc: East Central florida
Me and mine use those for snagging gators during the season down here in Central florida. What a hoot!
Jul 23, 2020 22:02:05 #
rtk
Loc: Eastern Washington
Fredfish wrote:
Snagging hooks Mike, use them to snag Bunker for Bluefish or Stripers. To big for MINNOWS. Welcome back Mike! 
Use them in Alaska in terminal fishing areas to snag salmon. It'll wear your arm out! I use bobber and egg roe.
Jul 23, 2020 22:59:23 #
Jul 24, 2020 06:13:18 #
GlsJr40 wrote:
Sorry to ask, but what is 'bunker'?
Atlantic Menhaden, a popular baitfish on the east coast.Stripers and Bluefish 4devour them, probably their primary food source in the east. I believe they are filter feeders, so the best ways to catch them is nets, or snagging from an active school. When the school is being torn up by bass/blues you can "snag and drop", snag one and let the weighted hook bring it below the school,where the biggest fish wait for the scraps to sink.
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