Fishing hooks

[lunkerslayer]

https://www.wired2fish.com/fishing-tips/a-guide-to-fishing-hooks-use-and-type-explained

 

[bravo]

I don’t see anything about those big Norwegian pike hooks. Does anyone actually use those?

 

[lunkerslayer]

Yes only thing I use when fishing with tip ups

 

[HUNTFISHND]

I don’t see anything about those big Norwegian pike hooks. Does anyone actually use those?

My dad and his buddies used to use them all the time while fishing with tipups. I'm pretty sure I lost more fish and I actually caught with them. I prefer to use the quick strike style myself.

 

[MicLee]

I learned about the difference between a circle hook and a J hook from Wicked Tuna.

 

[lunkerslayer]

My dad and his buddies used to use them all the time while fishing with tipups. I'm pretty sure I lost more fish and I actually caught with them. I prefer to use the quick strike style myself.

It's takes lots of practice to master the smelt hook but once you do it is designed to not be able to be spit out. I do use a stinger with a jig set up on my self setting tip ups though it's much easier when you are just using minnows compared to using a 6+ inch sucker, smelt, or blue herring as bait then it's the smelt hook.

 

[Bobkat]

Used to use these a lot back when I ice fished with tip ups a lot. Used for smelt, chubs when u could get em, maybe illegal now. We used to joke about Northerns being so dumb or hungry they’d even bite on coat hangers. Trebles seemed to work just as well.