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• What do you need

To choose a fish hook you need to know a thing or two about its size and shape. Indeed, there is a wide variety of hooks for each particular type of fishing, and since you will change the technique and fish differently, the learning process is likely to be continuous. Here you will find general information on how to choose the right fishing hook.

Note: Many of the guidelines in this article also apply to river fishing.

Steps

1. 1 Use a small hook to catch different types of fish. For example, hook number 5 can catch fish weighing from 0.11 kg to 11.34 kg. However, large fish (up to 11.34 kg) with such a hook should be caught carefully and dropped onto the deck using a hook or landing net.
2. 2 Choose hooks from well-known brands such as Mustad or Eagle Claw because they are durable and reliable. There are also many other brands out there, even better than Mustad and Eagle Claw. Ask your fishing friends what hooks they use. Sellers, as a rule, offer either the most profitable product, or the product that they have in stock.
3. 3 A hook with a short shank is stronger, and a hook with a long shank is easier to remove from the mouth of the fish. Due to its shape, the short shank hook is not easy to straighten or break. If you're fishing in areas with lots of coral reefs or in high winds, use a short-forend hook and stronger line. Always keep the line taut after the fish is hooked. Do not pull a large fish out of the water by force, let it get exhausted at depth, and then pull it closer to the surface until the fish stops turning green. The tired fish will lie on its side, and you will see that its sides are light gray, not green.
4. 4 Catch small and palm-sized fish with a long-shank hook. Thanks to the long forend, the undergrowth is not damaged in the mouth of the fish, and it becomes easier to remove the fish from the hook. When a small waste fish gets caught on a hook with a long forearm, you can easily remove it and return it back to the water. In this case, the forend functions as undergrowth. When the undergrowth has loosened, trim it 2.5 cm above the eyelet and re-tie it to the hook. A fish cannot swallow a hook with a long forend, but clings to it with its lip or jaw.
5. 5 Use a straight (standard) hook for a wide variety of fishing applications. You can hop if you fish with a straight hook.
6. 6 Use a curved hook when fishing with live bait. Do not hook the fish if you are catching it with a curved hook. If you start hooking the fish when it has swallowed the hook bait, it will slide off. The hook will pick up the fish by itself when it turns around and tries to swim away.Using this fishing technique, the angler can attach a bell on the rod and, at the same time, catch small fish, sleep, barbecue, sit with friends, etc. Thanks to the curved hook, the fish does not eat the bait and does not slide off the hook. The curved hook is used for fishing medium to large fish, because when fishing for small fish, the main goal is to catch as many fish as possible. Fishing for small fish is an active type of fishing.
7. 7 The bend of the oval-shaped hook is longer, so it is more convenient to attach a bait to it.
   • You can sweep when fishing with an oval hook. If you have artificial bait on the hook, hit the fish a little harder than you would with live bait. Strike the fish even sharper when the hook is hard, and a little lighter when the hook is soft.
   • When placing an artificial or live bait on the hook, pay attention to how it sits and what happens when it is removed from the hook: whether it is stationary or dangling. This type of hook is not as strong, but it holds the bait well.
   • Use spiked hooks on the shank to secure plastic baits to them. While fake bait fixed to the curvature of the hook works well enough, you can, if you wish, place a piece of plastic on the fore-end spike under the hook's eye.
8. 8 Handle triple hooks with care. These hooks can easily snag on you, your friends, seaweed or trees. As a rule, triple hooks are attached to wobblers, and they are not cheap. Floating wobblers are less likely to get entangled in algae, so you are less likely to lose them. Fishing with floating wobblers is very entertaining, as you will be able to see how the fish captures the bait.
9. 9 Fishing with a floating wobbler is a real pleasure, because its triple hooks do not cling to the bottom. Most wobblers have triple hooks attached, and if fish pull the hooks off the bait, attach more durable single hooks instead of triple hooks. When trolling, you should count on catching big fish, so replacing triple hooks with single hooks is a good solution.
10. 10 Depending on your fishing technique, you should choose a hook with a suitable eye. The eyelet is where you tie the underbrush to the hook.
    • The standard loop-shaped eyelet is suitable for all types of fishing.
    • For other types of fishhook ears, special methods of tying fishing line are used, and hooks with such ears are usually used for fishing with live bait.
    • If the hook does not have an eyelet, but there is a notch at the top of the forend, use the following tips to tie the line to such hooks. Always check how tightly you tied the line to the hook. For example, if the line holds 9kg, hang about 3.5kg from the hook. By checking the knot in this way, you will tighten it tighter and identify possible weak points. Re-tie the knot if necessary.
    • When fishing with live bait, even tie the hooks with an eye with a fishing line to keep the fishing line stronger. It will be very useful to tie a double or triple hook.
11. 11 When trolling on artificial bait, use only a sharp, straight hook with a medium forend. Typically, a straight hook is used for trolling, but when fishing for small fish, double hooks are used. Big fish are never caught with triple hooks. Always sharpen the point of the hook with a sharpening bar. When fishing big fish by trolling with artificial or live bait, the catch is not so frequent, so it is important that the hook is sharp.
    • It is better to catch big fish, such as marlin, on a sharp hook, as it hooks the fish more reliably.
    • Hooks will rust faster from trolling than from standard field fishing, so remember to rinse and soak your baits and hooks.

Tips

• Make sure you have a set of crochet hooks so you know what each one is for. You can never guess what kind of fishing you want to try at sea.
• You can learn more about fishing hook selection by watching others fish or from local fishing magazines and TV shows.

Warnings

• Always handle hooks very carefully to avoid injury to yourself or others.

What do you need

• Reputable trader in fishing products.
• Hook set