Red Hooks?

[Bassbusterjr]

Do red hooks really make a difference?

[Topdawg]

Just about all my hooks are red anymore, I do believe they make a difference.

[smljaw]

It's amazing that any of us caught our limits before "the red hook craze" began. They catch more fish if you think they'll catch more fish, IMO. It's all a state of mind. The longer the red hook thing lasts the more "red hook lures" Strike King's gonna sell.

[easy_13]

A couple of years ago, I went on a red hook craze and bought about $50 worth of 'em in wide gap hooks, of several sizes.

I used them the next two times I hit the lake, both times Carolina rigging. My partner and I were using the exact same bait, leader length, weight -- you name it. Only difference is he had black hooks and I had red hooks.

I couldn't pull a bite. He probably skunked me 20-0 during the times I was using red hooks. As soon as I put a regular hook on there, boom, I was catching 'em, too.

Still haven't gone back to the red hooks.

[dpage70]

i personally dont like the red hooks on bottom bouncers. i dont think they really matter past 10 ft or so. i do use them on shallower swimming lures. especially in cold water using suspending baits. i think they sit there and stare at it a while before they eat it and the cold water means shad dye off. so it just gives me the warm and fuzzies thinking that they may look at it as a dying shad.

[jeremys]

I really don't understand how they would work...some ads say that red shows injured or weak prey, but some line companys say that red line is invisable underwater...who do you beleive???

[buckdroppings]

If you are going deep red is fairly useless. Red is the first color to disappear in low light situations, such as dirty or muddy water, deep or night time fishing. It is basically invisible in low light situations. Ten feet or less will give you your best results with a red hook.

[jiggin_kc]

I read that red hooks show up clear under water.But I watched on basscenter that they leave a blood trail so eather way they couldnt hurt anything

[BassBest]

Buckdroppings is right on about the depth at which to use red hooks. As for what color they turn to at low light or past 5 or so ft, we would have to put on a scooba diving suit and find out for sure, but they are more visible to the fish at levels shallower than 10 ft, the shallower the better for red. No hooks leave a blood trail, none, none, none, red hooks, sorry, that is about as a myth as that a rip rap warms faster in the early spring, no it doesn't, unless the rip rap has grass or algea is covering the rock. Rip rap is not black, not not not black, they are a very light cover which we know that the lighter the color, the cooler, the darker the color, the warmer, the fish are on the rip rap because of the food. Rip rap is the most porous cover available with the best cover, this attracts crayfish and such which calls the bass. Also, most rip rap is clearer than other structure, and we know that clear water on a sunny day means warm water, dirty cold water means horrible fishing, but clear cold means the warmest water on a sunny day. As far as red, only in the shallows.
Take care

[jdw174]

In shallow clear water.....maybe. Anything else I say it's questionable at best.

[brettunderwood]

I would have to say yes. I use red hooks mostly on topwater and have found that 95% of the fish I catch have at least the red hook in their mouth if not both.

[Team9nine]

Without a doubt they work. Last year I started throwing jigs that had been tied using red hooks and without fail, every fish I caught on those jigs, regardless of skirt color, always had the red hook in it's mouth....every time! ;)

-T9 (Hey, it all comes down to confidence)