fishing the brush with light hooks

[jimmyjoe]

   I fish from shore. No matter how I rig or which plastic I use, I lose a LOT in brush. I lose fish and I lose hooks. Instead of powering up, I've been thinking of powering down. I remember that Charlie Brewer used to sell a double-light hook for his jigheads. The idea was to put them right in the cover, and then bend them straight if they hung up. I think (my memory isn't perfect) that they were designed to straighten out with 6 lb. line.

   Does anyone use these?

   Do they hold bass without straightening?

   Are there other light hooks that I could use in brush that straighten easily, yet still hold bass?

   Mostly, I'm talking senkos and small flukes. Maybe finesse worms, I don't know.

   Thnx for the help.    jj

  

[WRB]

Any decent hook is made from tempered steel wire for good reasons it's important so the hook doesn't straighten out. 

Lighter wire hooks straighten out with less force but they have yielded weakening the tempered metal. Bending back the hook into a bend weakens the wire more and will break easily when straighten out again.

Mustad made a Aberdeen light wire hook that wasn't high tempered steel, I don't recall the number.

Tom

PS, Mustad 32760 is .040 dia 3/0 light wire 90 jig Aberdeen hook.

3263 is straight shank Aberdeen light wire hook.

[Fishes in trees]

The Brewer lighter hooks were intended for Crappie fishing.   You can use them for bass fishing buy don't be surprised if a fish (even a 12" fish) straightens one out every so often.  If you're fishing for dinks, use of these jigs will pretty much guarantee that any fish 14" or over will get an early release.

[jimmyjoe]

   Yeah. I wrote Mustad and got about the same reply. Oh, well ..... I thought this might be one of those times when the people here could tell me something new and different, but I guess that was not to be.  Thanks anyway.      ?   jj