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Poll: Straight hook or Wide Gap on Jigs?

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  • Super User

Straight shank round bend    ;)

I experimented with this a few years ago alternating jigs and looking to see how the fish were hooked and counting how many came off etc. To make a long story short the straight shank hook lost way fewer fish and hooked all the way into or through the roof of the mouth most often while there were a bunch of fish skin hooked in the roof fo the mouth or hooked in the soft part on the sides of the lips with the ewg. Only place I found the ewg did a good job was casting on a very shallow flat where the angle of pull was a little different (flatter). Even on the shallow flat the EWG wasn't any better than the straight shank. So ever since then nothing but a straight shank for me 99% of the time.

I like the wide gap hooks better, I pesonally like them because it seems I have a better hookset with them instead of the straight hook

  • Super User

straight shank round bend. preferably a regular wire gamakatsu for most applications.

Round bend. They hold the trailer better for me and I get better hookups.

  • Super User

Straight, on Jig heads with a hunk of plastic, I prefer to have the screw type to hold the plastic, very weedless and effective.

Depends on the jig. I like a straight one for flipping but I like EWG for football jigs because it helps the trailer stand up.  But the EWGs have bent on big fish.

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