do we get ripped off for carp hooks in this country?

nicky · Sep 17, 2013

i have been using kamasan b175 trout hooks all summer and are fine for open water but no good for snag fishing i paid £7 odd for hundred and have lasted me all summer and still got plenty left.

I was just looking as some fly hooks Tiemco TMC 2457 on ebay as a possible carp hook £3.65 for ten yet if you look at ebay.com you can get 100 for $19.95 which works out about £12.50 i think why such a huge difference i just refuse to pay the £3-4 a pack that some of the big brand carp manufacturers are asking.

The bad one · Sep 17, 2013

In a word YES!

nicepix · Sep 17, 2013

nicky said:
i have been using kamasan b175 trout hooks all summer and are fine for open water but no good for snag fishing i paid £7 odd for hundred and have lasted me all summer and still got plenty left.

I was just looking as some fly hooks Tiemco TMC 2457 on ebay as a possible carp hook £3.65 for ten yet if you look at ebay.com you can get 100 for $19.95 which works out about £12.50 i think why such a huge difference i just refuse to pay the £3-4 a pack that some of the big brand carp manufacturers are asking.

A hundred hooks lasted you all summer?

I'm still using a packet of ten I bought in 1989

nicky · Sep 17, 2013

Bloody hell i thought i was tight but seriously i have used 50 odd since spring i regulary change my hooks if they feel slightly dull i usually dont leave the house without 7 or 8 rigs tied usually identical dont want to be fuss arsing about tying rigs in the dark

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cg74 · Sep 17, 2013

Ah the dreaded carp tax and barbel duty, where the tackle manufacturers all spin the same old (over used) line - "Do you want to risk losing the fish of a lifetime."

By planting that seed of doubt, they then quadruple the price of everything termed 'carp' and treble it if deemed as a barbel item...

Mustad Egg hooks will do the job and probably better than any 'carp' hook, if you find yourself looking for a curve shank hook, go for the Kamasan B110's.

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nicepix said:
A hundred hooks lasted you all summer?

I'm still using a packet of ten I bought in 1989

Yes but you are from Yorkshire....

Philip · Sep 17, 2013

Its one of the reason I am still using Drennen super specalists after literally decades...not only are they a very good hook but how can others justify literally treble the price ?

S-Kippy · Sep 17, 2013

I use B175's almost exclusively for my trout/sea trout fishing. Great hook....but I wouldn't have called them a "curved" shank. Why aren't they any good for snag fishing ?

cg74 · Sep 17, 2013

S-Kippy said:
I use B175's almost exclusively for my trout/sea trout fishing. Great hook....but I wouldn't have called them a "curved" shank. Why aren't they any good for snag fishing ?

An error on my part, I should've written B110 are a curved shank pattern...

nicky · Sep 18, 2013

Because in a hit and hold situation they can start to straighten out the guage of wire is slightly to thin for this situation imho

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Those b110's look worth a try but only seem to upto size 10 which is a shame

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jacksharp · Sep 18, 2013

Surprised how many people are using what I always considered fly hooks for general fishing. B175 was always a heavy wet-fly hook and B110 a heavier version of the B100 and is a curved buzzer/sedge pupa hook.

I have had B911, a popular general-purpose hook, opened up on me but haven't yet tried B911 X-Strong. A good, strong, barbless hook with an excellent bend is the B960 and I use these on pole rigs where carp are likely to occur (pretty much everywhere!)

For waggler fishing I am also using Kamasan B980 Specimen barbed, a heavily forged pattern with a slight offset which, so far, haven't let me down.

nicky · Sep 18, 2013

I have used the super specialist as well but not for a while i have heard of people bending the eye slightly with a pliars to create and inturned or outurned eye where required

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barbelboi · Sep 18, 2013

Jack, I use the B911x for up in the water carp - never had any problems with fish to big 20's.
Jerry

jacksharp · Sep 18, 2013

barbelboi said:
Jack, I use the B911x for up in the water carp - never had any problems with fish to big 20's.
Jerry

Thanks Jerry, I will pick up a few packets. :thumbs:

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