Color Diff on Hooks

GOT2FISH · 12-19-2003, 11:44 PM

I was taught to use red hooks o the Santiam Does it realy make a diffreance and if so why?

k9jeff · 12-20-2003, 02:39 AM

I dont think so,, it makes em easy to find when you drop em.

I do use red while using eggs...just a preference

Fshklr · 12-20-2003, 03:27 AM

I use the black nickle colored. I have some confidence that they blend in with the debrie in the water for a possible more natural presentation.

Just my .02 as always use what you have confidence in and just keep at it.

willierower · 12-20-2003, 07:21 AM

Red, Black, or nickel. It makes no difference. Red turns to black in water over 3 feet deep. Colored hooks catch more fishermen then fish.

Corkie Monster · 12-20-2003, 10:47 AM

I agree with Willierower, I don't think the fish care.

CM

Rakkasan · 12-20-2003, 10:59 AM

I use bronze. I do not think it matters.

Twitchs_Tackle · 12-20-2003, 03:58 PM

Check out Herzogs reply to a letter written to the "How-To Tips" in STS 2003 Dec-Jan. It deals with this topic.

As you may already know, due to light and wavelength penetration in water, some colors 'change' at certain depths. Reds turn dark, almost black first (shallowest in the water column)...blues, greens stay those colors deeper into water.

SHOUGALNITE · 12-22-2003, 12:13 PM

Doesn't matter.

Radke · 12-22-2003, 12:19 PM

one more vote for the 'doesn't' matter group.

Troller · 12-22-2003, 12:29 PM

The only time I worry bout hook color is fishing for sockeye on lake Washington. Thats because the hook is the bait and Red is what I have had the best luck with.

Predator Dawg · 12-22-2003, 01:16 PM

So, troller brings up an interesting point. On Lake WA it is common to fish for sockeye 60' down. It is widely known that red hooks outfish the other colors there, yet at that depth in that water should definitely look black. Does that mean you could use black hooks for this (I know someone that tried this and they did way worse than the others in the boat using red), or does it mean that sockeye are able to see the natural colors at depth, hence why they can catch and feed on krill which is reddish?????

Lefty · 12-22-2003, 01:18 PM

Don't matter much, red just gives me more confidence....

Artwo · 12-22-2003, 02:19 PM

I think it does have an affect. A couple years ago while winter steelhead fishing on the Sandy I was doing pretty well using red gammi hooks. Then one day while fishing having hooked three fish I ran out of red gammi hooks I switch to bronze VMC and didn't touch a fish for the rest of the day. I bought some more red gammi's on the way home that evening and the next day went three for five. I don't know what it was but as long as my setup had a red hook I would get fish, none on any other color I tried.

FEAR NO FISH! · 12-22-2003, 03:01 PM

If you want more hook ups, go with glow in the dark, powder coating on your trebles. It makes your hooks look like little squids in the water. I use em on all my plugs. 2's for Mag Warts, 4's for vortexes, 1's and 2's for lighted Kwikfish, 1/O's for K-16'S. Don't knock it till ya try it. Works night or day.

LuckySteelhead · 12-22-2003, 03:16 PM

pink gamis, 0/2 give me the most confidence, it may be psychological. One thing is forsure, they stay the sharpest, even if your dragging on rocks on the bottom of the sandy.