There we go. There we go. That's a good fish. Yeah, okay. You can net him. Oh. There we go. It works.
So here's a question I received the other day on a PM on our forums. "Glenn, what's the difference between thicker hooks and thinner hooks? What are the benefits of each?" All right. So for me, thicker hooks are more of a specialty. You know, a unique situation where if I'm fishing heavy cover, say, I'm flipping and pitching in thick weeds, flooded bushes, and timber, you know, thick cover like that, then I'm using a stout rod. I'm using like 50-pound braid, and its short casts. So when I set the hook on the fish, there's a lot of force being delivered on the hook. And if I'm using a thin wire hook, that is in turn...you're putting...that's the weak spot. That hook can actually end up bending out, and you can lose the fish. And you're using that stout equipment because you've gotta get that fish out of that cover. You gotta turn his head and get him moving towards you. Otherwise, you can wrap up on all that. So that's when I use the thicker hooks or maybe if I'm throwing frogs over the top of matted cover or I'm punching, you know, that kind of stuff, heavy cover fishing, that's when I bring in those super line hooks or those thicker hooks.
Otherwise, I'm using thinner or the normal hooks. Those are for, using say medium-heavy rod with a fast action tip, worm fishing, I'm fishing sparse cover. Maybe, I'm fishing rocks or I'm fishing a stump field, or even when I'm downsizing, I'm using finesse tactics, like drop-shot finesse fishing, I'm using a little size 1/0 hooks, maybe size two hooks, one hooks. And those little thin wire hooks don't require a whole lot of force to set the hook. So if they're at the end of a long cast, for example, I don't need a bone-jarring hook, that hook will penetrate easily or if I'm using smaller baits, there's not a lot of body of the bait for it to penetrate. The hook point will just naturally...it's sharp. They're needle-sharp. It's easy for them to penetrate the fish's mouth. So, for the most part, I'm using your normal wire or light wire hooks as opposed to those thicker hooks.
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