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Need some advice on bending a jig hook, from a 90 degree bend to a 30 degree bend.  Has anyone attempted this?  The hook I want to work with is an Owner light wire jig hook, .047 diameter wire.  Any thoughts or suggestions welcome.  I would like to come up with a jig of some sort to be consistant in the bending process.

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I suggest you find a different hook. I say this because while it maybe possible, you will most likely break a lot of hooks or impale yourself. Owner hooks are tempered (as are almost all, if not all) almost to the point of being brittle. If you do get it to bend where you like it, it will be so much weaker that you will probably break it on the fist good fish you hook.

Look around on-line, there are probably high quality, name brand hooks already made in your preferred style.

mustsad has a hook that you are looking for, so does eagle claw but if it was me i would go with the mustad, youe can get them at www.barlowstackle.com

the hood # are mustat- 91768BLN, 32886BLN, Eagle claw- L2221

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