Never sharpen your hooks.
May 19, 2021 09:02:22 #
Jungle Ranch Fish Camp
Loc: Punta Gorda, FL
That’s the most reasonable answer I’ve read about sharpening hooks. Unless that thing has its point broken off, or like the one guy professionally fishing for swordfish , the idea of sharpening a hook seems almost ridiculous. New hooks are cheaper than my time.
May 19, 2021 09:07:55 #
kandydisbar
Loc: West Orange, NJ
Robert J Samples wrote:
If sharpening hooks kept fish from biting, they would also be sensitive enough to read your license plates as you drove up and know whether you were a savvy fisherman or a neophyte, and act accordingly. Just Sayin...RJS
Good one, RJ!
May 19, 2021 10:07:55 #
Never sharpened a hook in my life and never had a fish complain about a dull hook! Actually I think I'm to old to learn new things!
May 19, 2021 10:24:07 #
Thefinder
Loc: Western Massachusetts
OJdidit wrote:
I will sharpen mine when I feel it is necessary. I drag mine slightly across my thumbnail…if it catches, it is sharp enough.
Ya..sticky sharp.
May 19, 2021 10:39:45 #
May 19, 2021 10:53:48 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Jungle Ranch Fish Camp wrote:
That’s the most reasonable answer I’ve read about sharpening hooks. Unless that thing has its point broken off, or like the one guy professionally fishing for swordfish , the idea of sharpening a hook seems almost ridiculous. New hooks are cheaper than my time.
¡¡Time!! (THE one thing, that ain't none of us, ever have enough of!)
May 19, 2021 11:22:54 #
bapabear
Loc: Blaine, Washington
I wrote this post just for giggles. I was totally surprised at the responses. In many cases, super sharp is critical for hook up. Sharp also prevents many lost fish as the hole is pierced rather than torn open. For those of you who do not sharpen your hooks, just remember all those bites you missed. One of them may have been your biggest fish ever. Now in all seriousness, for those of you that agreed with using dull hooks, for a ridiculously obscene amount of money, I can teach you a dance that may improve your fishing.
May 19, 2021 11:28:06 #
May 19, 2021 11:46:53 #
bapabear wrote:
I wrote this post just for giggles. I was totally... (show quote)
Kinda like it, dull hook akin to a dull knife, leave it in the drawer
May 19, 2021 13:04:41 #
I've read about guy's that buy new hooks and sharpen them before using them! Why bother with new hooks?
May 19, 2021 13:41:06 #
Don Fischer wrote:
I've read about guy's that buy new hooks and sharpen them before using them! Why bother with new hooks?
If you have to sharpen new hooks you buy, you're buyin the wrong hooks.
May 19, 2021 13:52:37 #
May 19, 2021 14:09:01 #
Able Man
Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
Don Fischer wrote:
I've read about guy's that buy new hooks and sharpen them before using them! Why bother with new hooks?
Even brand-damn new hooks, that "hook-dude" on that F/V, would infact, sharpen. (I don't know what the rest of the "hook dudes" were "into", on the other boats; but, we typically outfished the bulk of "the fleet" {~1/2 dozen boats}).
May 19, 2021 15:45:18 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
If sharpening hooks kept fish from biting, they would also be sensitive enough to read your license plates as you drove up and know whether you were a savvy fisherman or a neophyte, and act accordingly. Just Sayin...RJS
May 19, 2021 18:12:20 #
Captain Lahti
Loc: Kennewick, WA
I check all new hooks by dragging them over my thumb nail and if they don’t catch they get sharpened. Most aren’t sharp enough out of the bag not even flys. I also M ash the barb down on any thing intended for trout or salmonids so they are easier to release and so they bite into the fish mouth better. It’s a requirement for salon and steelhead in many waters around Washington anyway and I don’t loose Any steelhead I hook. I think I’d even try that for bass. On fish like crappie that have a lot of thin membrane in their mouth lip structure aren’t that hard to unhook.
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