I have always liked 6th Sense hard baits because they come with great hooks out of the package. Super sharp, and I like the EWG treble hooks.

 

Add "nearly indestructible" to the list of their qualities. I only know that because....I got the front treble on a Provoke jerkbait buried in the back of my thumb this weekend, and had to go to urgent care to get it out....and in the process of removing the hook, we (me and the medical staff) had to cut the prongs on the hook, and we nearly couldn't do it. That was the toughest metal I think I've ever encountered.

 

Ironically it was my first time throwing a Provoke jerkbait, and I caught a solid16 incher within 10 minutes of starting...of course he got the last laugh when he planted that treble in my thumb during unhooking. But dang, those hooks are TOUGH.

On the one hand (hah), that really sucks.

 

On the other, I 100% believe that. I killed one Provoke when I got it hung in a brushpile I misjudged and, when I finally got it loose, it and the branch it was embedded in came rocketing back at me and hit the dock at my feet. The bill on the lure broke, but all the hooks on it lived on in an H2O Xpress jerkbait.

I can't take them off my Provokes fast enough when I open the box. An EWG hook on a jerkbait is a horrible pairing IMO. They'll hook them when they're really eating them, but not when they're just swatting at the bait. 

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I can't take them off my Provokes fast enough when I open the box. An EWG hook on a jerkbait is a horrible pairing IMO. They'll hook them when they're really eating them, but not when they're just swatting at the bait. 

I try to keep things as cheap as possible, and my favorite jerkbait is the Jackall Rerange 110.  They make them eat when they're closer to neutral, but when I find them crushing a jerkbait I switch to the Provoke 106x with those trebles.  My hookup to land percentage goes nearly to 100%, I feel.

 

Oh, and as for the hooks I asked the owner what brand they were a while back when they mailed me some replacement baits -- they're Mustad.  I love a Mustad.  They're just mean and the name sounds like it.

8 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I can't take them off my Provokes fast enough when I open the box. An EWG hook on a jerkbait is a horrible pairing IMO. They'll hook them when they're really eating them, but not when they're just swatting at the bait. 

 

6th sense has been using quality hardware on most of their offerings for a while now. 

 

  EWGs are my preference ~ I know we both catch a few on jerkbaits, and we'll always do better with hardware we believe in.  However, I remove every round bend treble that comes on a jerkbait and replace them with EWG; every one. 

In fact I do not fish round bend trebles on ANYTHING. 

Just no confidence in them to hook or hold.

Funny part might be that if I fished your baits & you fished mine,

and there was no way for us to know what type of hooks we were throwing, 

we'd both probably still have the same hook up and landing ratio:

as long as they were sharp & reasonably stout. 

?

A-Jay

 

10 hours ago, galyonj said:

On the one hand (hah), that really sucks.

 

 

Pun intended...?

 

2 hours ago, Hook2Jaw said:

I try to keep things as cheap as possible, and my favorite jerkbait is the Jackall Rerange 110.  They make them eat when they're closer to neutral, but when I find them crushing a jerkbait I switch to the Provoke 106x with those trebles.  My hookup to land percentage goes nearly to 100%, I feel.

 

 

From my prematurely short trip, it did seem like they were/would have been hitting a jerkbait aggressively--the one I caught hammered it--so the Provoke seemed perfect for that. Really wish I had the chance to keep testing it that day....?

 

My jb approach is similar to yours...I like the Vision 110/110 Jr. when they want a more subdued or slower approach. I had been using the Strike King KVDs as my more aggressive day jb (they have a rattle that reminds me a little of a Trap) but I think the Provoke is going to take over that role.

I took a 4/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hook to the right index finger. Felt like the point was scraping the bone. Having seen other people suffer cutting hooks or poking the point out through a second hole and cutting the eye off the hook, to push it through, I decided, in a millionth of a second, that since I was holding a ball of hooks and sinkers that were all attached to other people’s rods, that I should just pull it right back out. And I pulled it right back out as fast as I possibly could. Faster than I would always be afraid to remove a band aid. And that was it. Two minutes later I was back to fishing like it never happened.

 

 

As far as the 6th sense hooks go, they look good to me, but I’m not testing them by taking a second hook past the barb.

4 hours ago, CrankFate said:

I took a 4/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hook to the right index finger. Felt like the point was scraping the bone. Having seen other people suffer cutting hooks or poking the point out through a second hole and cutting the eye off the hook, to push it through, I decided, in a millionth of a second, that since I was holding a ball of hooks and sinkers that were all attached to other people’s rods, that I should just pull it right back out. And I pulled it right back out as fast as I possibly could. Faster than I would always be afraid to remove a band aid. And that was it. Two minutes later I was back to fishing like it never happened.

 

The way mine was angled, the urgent care staff were afraid it was close to the bone, and were afraid if they did the usual method of cutting it off and pushing the point out, they would hit the bone. They had to back it out instead. Gave me the choice of Lidocaine or not. There's not much meat on the back of your thumb, and I pictured that Lidocaine shot not feeling much better than pulling the hook out. So I went with no Lidocaine. They proceeded to use a pair of needle nose pliers and pull it out.

 

Once that was all over with, other than the tetanus shot, my thought was that I could have done the same thing out on the water and not lost a half an afternoon of fishing. Happy to say that an hour after it was over, I was back out in the boat with nothing but a bandaid and a good story to tell.

The ones they use on the cranks seem very similar to 1x short 1x strong mustad kvd triple grips.  Supposedly though 6th sense has thier own proprietary hooks. 
 

Recently I have come to really like 6th sense and spro as they come with good hooks.  Spro uses a gama hook which, is a good hook 

 

every other crank mfg I swap the hooks out for kvd triple grips 

On 5/16/2021 at 10:34 PM, plawren53202 said:

had to go to urgent care to get it out....and in the process of removing the hook, we (me and the medical staff) had to cut the prongs on the hook, and we nearly couldn't do it.

I so want to say something about bigger dykes and a penetrated hooker, but I don't dare...