Have you ever adjusted your hooks

[chunknwind]

I am interested in if any of you have ever bent your hook to improve "hooking power" when setting the hook? I have a friend who is giving me great grief for such an act. Thanks.

Come on Bonefish, tell all of it to justify the grief Woody told me that you was bending out The hookpoints of #2 Gamakatsu offset hooks when you was Texas rigging lizards Bending them out so far as to having the hook texposed sticking an 1/8 inch outside the plastic trying to fish thru Grandmas Fuzz he said you hung up a ton and lost a good 7 pounder because the hook was bent out so much it had no locking power to keep fish on the hook