Poll: Bending Hook Points OUT

[Moveon]

Well this one could be a little tricky. You see not all fishermen fish weedless baits. And there are times when bending the hook's point out a bit helps to snag those fish. But as you say this will make your hook easier to get snagged. But if you are fishing for suspended fish away from snags then bending the hook out will help hook more fish. So my answer is that "IT DEPENDS" on the type of water you are fishing.

A buddy of mine who shall remain nameless, but it rhymes with BONEFISH, is convinced that by bending out the hookpoints is better than tbe way they come in a pack. He takes a perfectly new Gamakatsu hook out of the pack and bends the point out. Then when he fished a texas rig he pushes the point all tbe way thru the worm in a texpose fashion. Then wonders why he gets hung up more often

The questionis. How many of you bend your hookpoints?

[elnutsmalljaws]

Well this one could be a little tricky. You see not all fishermen fish weedless baits. And there are times when bending the hook's point out a bit helps to snag those fish. But as you say this will make your hook easier to get snagged. But if you are fishing for suspended fish away from snags then bending the hook out will help hook more fish. So my answer is that "IT DEPENDS" on the type of water you are fishing.

We were fishing a hump in Barkley that has so much junk on it that it was nicknamed "Grandma's Fuzz". Literally the difference between 5/16 and 3/8 tungsten determined whether you got hung up and had to go to the other side to get it or in the jungle enough to catch fish. Vaun and myself had almost 80 off this hump by noon the first morning while Mr Bone counted sheep snuggled in bed because he was either too smart or too dumb to not go out with Vaun and myself while it was pouring buckets and lightning was dancing all around. That is the type of water we were fishing, Texas rigged lizards thru what seemed like rose bushes