Red or Black Hooks

[RWHusker.]

Please give feedback on Red colored hooks. Do you use them, Why and When? Thanks!

[Gorgebassman]

I use them if they come on a bait that the company sells that way but I dont buy any for use like with t-rigs or dropshots etc.

[T-rig]

I dont think there is a difference, they both work!

[Guest Feel_The_Steel]

I have fished both and have not noticed a sizable difference.  

[BassBeat101]

I use both colors, but it's really more of a confidence thing for me I guess.  I use the option of hook color in the same vein as using Spike-It for a shot of chartreuse on a tail or red marker on a crankbait.  If I want a bit smaller profile, I'll go with a darker hook.  Flashier, bloodier, whatever, red hook.  I catch a few fish on each, but I never really experiment with just one color for extended amounts of time.

Daryl

[Guest avid]

I use them both, basically because one daichi hook seems to only be available in red at my local walmart.  there are times I think it matters.  Then there are times I don't.

So I gues my answer is that if you think it matters, then it matters.

If you don't, then it don't.

[T-rig]

Well said avid!

[paparock]

I use them Both and sometimes I only use one on the front or rear depending on what I am trying to accomplish.

[CrazedL.IFisherman]

I definitely like red hooks on soft plastics in shallow water less than 5 feet deep

[cbfishalot]

I use both at times but I really don't think it makes a huge difference.  I will only place them on the front of a bait.  I don't want to draw any attention to anything except the middle (sweet spot) of the bait.  I don't want the fish to hit the rear hook so if the red promotes a strike I want it to be on the front hook.  I think if it is true that red disappears at nine feet  then it may make a difference in shallow water.  I will use red hooks when fishing plastics at times also.  This is just to change up and to give me added confience and focus.  It also give the bait a different look even though it might be so slight.  I don't really believe in the whole blood  trail thing. Thats just my opinion and many people believe different things about fishing with red hooks.

[Grey Wolf]

I use both but I really don't know if it makes a differance.

[Shadcranker]

Red on flukes and white or shad clored baits. Black nickel on all other palstics when not trying to represent a shad. This keeps it simple.

[Evan Pease]

I only use red hooks if im fishing a plastic with red flakes in it. On cranks I might wind up with one if Im replacing rusty hooks but I dont make a point to use them.

[crankybaits]

I've found that the red chip pretty easily, so i normally use the black.

[0119]

Never, I dont agree with the hype.  From my experience when the red flakes off underneath it is a gold hook, very soft just like an aberdeen bream hook.  I tried those cheap Eagle Claw laser sharp red offset hooks walmart sells.  One fish and the point is either dulled or rolled over.

[Catt]

I use Mustad's Denny Brauer Flipping Hook and they don't come in red  

[Bass Smacker]

I don't know if it matters if you use red or black. But I do know that once the red flakes and the gold

starts showing you will get bit less. You wont have that problem with the black...

 Just my .02

[boondocks]

They are used more for catching fisherman than fish.IMO

[NaterD]

I agree with that last statement.  I also tried some of those eagle claws last summer and was NOT impressed.  I've heard of this in conjunction with Cajun Red Line... which i know nothing of.  I'd say there is no diff IMO as well.

[Curado]

I use both and haven't really found a noticable difference.

[JigNBig]

use red colored hooks for shakey or alabama rigs. it makes a HUGEdifference                                                         dead serious.