Bumping fish, or just not hooking them properly........

[Philip]

Sure you know them but the Drennan Specimen hooks are a sort of lighter version of the Super Specialists. I like them as a Chub hook but have landed some good Barbel on them too. Eyed & Microbarbed.

Might be a bit light for you but still a resonable price as well.

 

[tigger]

Sure you know them but the Drennan Specimen hooks are a sort of lighter version of the Super Specialists. I like them as a Chub hook but have landed some good Barbel on them too. Eyed & Microbarbed.

Might be a bit light for you but still a resonable price as well.

Always have several different sizes of them in my pack Philip, funny enough I used one yesterday .
I don't usually use em for trotting though but they are a great hook.

 

[silvers]

I’ve just bought some of those drennan wide gapes to replace Kamasan b611, which seem very variable these days. They look a nice hook.

My go to chub hook for maggot and caster is the drennan carbon feeder. Plenty strong enough for most barbel on the waters that I fish as well. It’s in between the super spade and wide gape in terms of wire gauge.

 

[tigger]

I’ve just bought some of those drennan wide gapes to replace Kamasan b611, which seem very variable these days. They look a nice hook.

My go to chub hook for maggot and caster is the drennan carbon feeder. Plenty strong enough for most barbel on the waters that I fish as well. It’s in between the super spade and wide gape in terms of wire gauge.

I've heard good things about the drennan carbon feeder hooks before, prolly get some to try from my local shop. In the pics they do very similar to thw super spades.

 

[dicky123]

I'd rather have a hook give out than a line break to be honest.

 

[Another Dave]

I caught a chub today, about a pound. Hook was brand new Drennan specimen barbless size 6. I had to scramble down to unhook it and on my way down it did the usual chub shennanigans. When I lifted its head up to take the hook out i noticed the hook hadn't really hooked in at all, just sort of catching the roof of the mouth. Hook wasn't blunt either.

 

[108831]

It may have bounced out during the fun and games,then lodged the way you saw it Dave,barbless hooks do dislodge in moments of slack line,as do barbed ones at times.

 

[Tee-Cee]

It happens to me a lot when landing roach in the 10" class. If a sprightly one does the odd somersault in the net before I can reach it, invariably the hook dislodges and ends up hooked in the net. I'm talking of barbless 16 to 20's here and as whitty says , probably due to slack line. The next fish can be hooked fairly and squarely in the top lip fishing off bottom or the bottom lip if over depth.
It happens, but I do check my hook, particularly if the magg doesn't slip on easily..

Generally speaking, with small hook fishing it is usually the kinking of the hook bottom (1,5/2lb bs) that means a hook change, and usually when I'm catching steadily, so I accept this as par for the course. Nothing worse than a hook bottom not hanging vertically! The angle of the dangle, so to speak....
Amazingly, on the odd occasion, having caught (say) 30/40 roach the hook bottom is still in perfect nick, but rarely...