Red Hooks?

[Bassbusterjr]

Do red hooks really make a difference?

[nitro896]

red hooks are like kids and clothes. In today gone tomorrow.

[gettingonefishin]

Hey ya know what I always catch more fish when I wear a white hat then any other color, so it seems. Hmmm

[Bassbusterjr]

Thanks guys! i made a choice and i will put red hooks on all my suspending cranks that are shallower than 10 feet! I don't think red hooks on bottom bouncing baits make a diference but i might try.

[sprint]

i only put a red hook on the front of a crankbait,top water ect.a pro told me with it in the front the fish would go after the whole bait. buddy and i was fishing same bait but mine had red hook caught 4 to his every one

[mhall]

I'm convinced red hooks has increased my catch ratio. I also would bet the house, truck, and boat that rip rap banks warm quicker than bare mud banks, seen it way too many times. Do you an experiment the next cold but sunny day. Take a piece of rip rap and a ball of mud of fairly equal size and lay them out in the direct sunlight. At the end of the day feel the mud ball, then feel the rock and see which is warmer. Then after the sun has been down for about an hour go feel them again, the rock will still be warm while the mud has gotten cold. Not trying to be a know it all scientist here, but this is just simple physics.

[yogio]

I have a biology degree- or at least I earned one a long darn time ago- and I agree that red is one of the first colors that we humans lose as we descend in the water, but I dont think any one has a clue as to what a bass or any other fish can see at various depths. I do know that many fish that live hundreds of meters deep in the ocean have reds as predominant color schemes. Does this mean I'm going to buy red hooks? Probably not. In my experience on some days you can't help but catch fish and on most ... at least for me... I can't buy one. I still think it has more to do with how you hold your mouth. lol

[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)

[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.

[jdw174]

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

[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.
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