Quote Originally Posted by Bonefish View Post
Through the pass few years I have noticed many more lures with red hooks. With a little research on subject, here is the "blood connection." Fish naturally strike blood and injury. Also, when fish feed they show red in their gills which stimulate feeding. Crappie have been known to bite a red hook without a minnow, and they will attack a minnow if it has an injured spot before one that does not. Dark red is better than light red or organge, and red does not disappear underwater. Red hooks are not new. Heddon used red hooks on some of their lures back in the forties. And even more interesting, my grandfater back in the thirties painted all his lures red and white. I still have those lures, and I remember as a kid, my father making fun of him for doing so.
Oxygen deprived shad will turn red from the nose back, ussually when the red reaches past the gills the shad will die. My grandfather did the same thing boy that brings back memories,funny how history repeats itself...I'm still waiting for my hair style to come back, I'll be the first to have it lol.