QM1 hooks

[mikench]

I posted about my method hooks opening up under pressure from playing a fish. Guru QM 1 hooks were recommended to me and I have found them to be excellent and have undoubtedly lost me fewer fish!

I pay far too much attention to rods, reels and line and not enough to the to the smallest and seemingly least significant item! Not any more !

 

[iain t]

Good hooks but when are Guru going to work out a packet of 10 hooks should contain 10, not 8.

 

[mikench]

I have just checked an unopened pack and there were 10 hooks in it!! The hooks to nylon packs contain just 8 rigs!

 

[103841]

Those hooks are very sharp, unlike the people that pack them.

The hook Mike is the most important element in our rigs, something we all tend to overlook on occasion I’m sure.

 

[tigger]

Not for lack of trying but I haven't found any hooks to better drennan and kamasan hooks.

 

[David Rogers 3]

Not for lack of trying but I haven't found any hooks to better drennan and kamasan hooks.

I too use and like both of those brands, especially in the smaller sizes. But in size 10 and above, I now have great faith in these ones from Bank Tackle: Wide Gape Hooks. Carp Fishing Tackle.

 

[mikench]

I am restricted to size 12 on all of one of my clubs waters and am happy with sizes 12 and 14 in the QM1 range of hair rigs to nylon! I do like Kamasan animal hooks to nylon which are not hair rigs and the Drennan red maggot hooks in 18 and 20 for roach!

 

[Philip]

Drennan hooks for me.

Lots of new fads come and go but Drennan Super Specialists just plod along doing the business. ...Straight point, straight eye, sharp and strong. As long as they dont mess with the hook or triple the price I cant imagine I will change.

 

[S-Kippy]

Very personal things hooks. I too like a lot of Drennan hook patterns with the exception of Super Specialist. I couldn't tell you why other than I dont like the shape.

 

[tigger]

Very personal things hooks. I too like a lot of Drennan hook patterns with the exception of Super Specialist. I couldn't tell you why other than I dont like the shape.

Main thing is Skippy, they work very well, and are cheap in comparison to many others .

 

[markcw]

I used to use Drennan fine wire for winter silver fish they were that fine you could bend them between fingers, I cant seem to get them now, I use QM1 hooks, I did use the kamasan animals and maver eagle claw but I use kamasan B911 in the ordinary wire gauge and the F1 gauge, also Tubertini 808.

 

[davebhoy]

I’m a big fan of the QM1, the best knotless knot hair rig hooks for silverfish imo. I did have a size 14 did straighten on me recently but it was a 10lb bream and I noticed after I’d netted it.

I’ve used the Drennan silver fish hair riggers, which I’ve liked but not as much as the QM1

I tried a lot of different small strong hooks when I was trotting for barbel, the strongest hook in small sizes I used is the drennan carp method, although a size 16 is more like a 14 and they are thick heavy hooks. Very good barbel hooks in all the sizes, better than the super specialist, that I’ve never really liked, and good for hair rigging in the smaller sizes

 

[Molehill]

I am restricted to size 12 on all of one of my clubs waters and am happy with sizes 12 and 14 in the QM1 range of hair rigs to nylon! I do like Kamasan animal hooks to nylon which are not hair rigs and the Drennan red maggot hooks in 18 and 20 for roach!

I have just started using some red maggot in 18 for grayling (fishing with red maggots), very impressed as they do hook and hold well. But find them the devil to remove from a graylings mouth, something about that fine wire and micro barb that doesn't want to shift out of a tough grayling mouth. But I drop less fish!

 

[sam vimes]

I used to use Drennan fine wire for winter silver fish they were that fine you could bend them between fingers, I cant seem to get them now

Drennan still make them, whether a shop stocks them is another matter entirely.
https://www.drennantackle.com/products/hooks/spade-end-hooks/

I consider the wide gape match as an all time favourite. I rarely use much else. However, I can rarely buy them locally. They are an awful lot better, and more versatile, than the Drennan gumph suggests. They have them pegged as a silvers hook, I use them for anything up to tench, carp and barbel. I've yet to see one opened up.

 

[S-Kippy]

Main thing is Skippy, they work very well, and are cheap in comparison to many others .

That may be so Ian but it dont count for diddly if I dont like the pattern. As you know I dont mess about with line or hooks and will not use anything I am not personally 100% happy with. I have never liked SS.

 

[tigger]

That may be so Ian but it dont count for diddly if I dont like the pattern. As you know I dont mess about with line or hooks and will not use anything I am not personally 100% happy with. I have never liked SS.

I would imagine you would like the superspades? They're a wide gape and have a turned in hooter.

 

[nottskev]

Drennan still make them, whether a shop stocks them is another matter entirely.
https://www.drennantackle.com/products/hooks/spade-end-hooks/

I consider the wide gape match as an all time favourite. I rarely use much else. However, I can rarely buy them locally. They are an awful lot better, and more versatile, than the Drennan gumph suggests. They have them pegged as a silvers hook, I use them for anything up to tench, carp and barbel. I've yet to see one opened up.

Funny you should bring those up. I started using the Wide Gape Match for small and medium-size tench last year, and found them ideal. The sizes are small - the 14 is like a 16 in some brands - and very strong. You don't tend to expect hooks labelled "Match" to be forged, as these are. Maybe Drennan should call them something less misleading?

 

[sam vimes]

Funny you should bring those up. I started using the Wide Gape Match for small and medium-size tench last year, and found them ideal. The sizes are small - the 14 is like a 16 in some brands - and very strong. You don't tend to expect hooks labelled "Match" to be forged, as these are. Maybe Drennan should call them something less misleading?

Landing carp to just shy of 20lb, double figure barbel and tench over 5lb mean that I'm not remotely shy of using them for way in excess of what Drennan has them pegged at. I don't care what they call them, as long as they keep making them. The only request I'd make of Drennan would be to make them in at least a couple of sizes bigger than the current size 14. If they brought out the exact same pattern but barbless, I doubt I'd need to bother with any other hook for any of my float fishing.

 

[108831]

Not for lack of trying but I haven't found any hooks to better drennan and kamasan hooks.

Personally I don't rate kamasan hooks,but I do use drennan a lot,but unless you try some of guru's patterns you not pick out the gooduns,qm1's are basically for self hooking and as I've said elsewhere mwgb's are the best barbel hook for lead fishing I've ever used and at £1-60 for ten that's great....for me anyhow.

 

[Philip]

The only request I'd make of Drennan would be to make them in at least a couple of sizes bigger than the current size 14. If they brought out the exact same pattern but barbless, I doubt I'd need to bother with any other hook for any of my float fishing.

They do make the wide gape specialist un bigger sizes and barbless but I am guessing its probably too thick gauge for your liking..