Red Hooks?

[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.

[wtucker]

What about tying about 12 inches of red line to front red hook on the crankbait? Maybe we couldn't patent the first "blood trail" bait.