VMC Spark Point Trebles

[pjmcla]

The going rate around here at the ER for simple hook removal is $310.00.  I keep a set of heavy duty hardened steel wire cutters and several alcohol swabs in the boat all the time.  The numbing shots hurt worse than hook removal to me. 

[Denny Welch]

My fishing history is mainly flyfishing.  At least 95% of that was c&r with barbless hooks.  When you're whipping a fly line close to your face several hundred times a day you are going to get stuck.  I've had many hooks buried in my face, neck, hands, fingers, ears, etc.  With barbless hooks it's simply a matter of backing the hooks out.  It was always nice to have a small trickle of blood next to an eye just so you'd have something to talk about at night, but when all was said and done...no harm, no foul.

It's a different story with those big treble hooks we use now.  I give those things a lot of respect.  I've got this thing I call a "twitch".  The doctors diagnose it as an "essential tremor".  It means that my hands will involuntarily "twitch" or shake, often at inopportune times.  I can't type much anymore and I can't read my own handwriting. It's progressive, but slow.  It's one of those type things we have to deal with as we get older, which brings me back to treble hooks.  I've been tying up some feathered and some flashabou trebles.  I know it's just a matter of time before I impale my thumb, or finger, or both, into a big ole' #2 or #4 treble hook as I'm sweeping materials back toward the treble.

Do any of you guys have any thoughts on how to prevent that from happenings? 

[mike27]

maybe put something on each point of the hooks  small chunk of soap,waxes ,elect tape would have to be small not to inter.. with tying  if you still get a hook in you. I will be pleading the fifth on advise o f council  ha ha

[2XL]

Denny,   Hook Bonnets may be something worth looking into.

[Denny Welch]

I thought of the hook bonnets, but those things are really clunky.  I don't think that the feather would lay down enough to be tied properly.  It would probably be acceptable for Mo, but my high standards would be severely compromised.  Good thought though.

[mike27]

maybe roll up a piece of tin foil [bb size] ball on hook point  or if you have any round steel beads the kind found on spinnerbaits  work  small and not in the way  I dried it with beads seem to work  kinds like a tennis ball on the bottom of a cane 

[2XL]

Wire sheath? Clear air line for aquarium air pumps?   Slide it over the hook point then cut it off if you can't pull it off. Popper body corks. Small Alligator clips dipped in that electric wire connector stuff. Basically it's liquid plastic/rubber.

[21xdc]

I just ordered 1,000 and will report my findings. 

[Denny Welch]

i like the clear plastic air line idea.  I'll play with it, but I bet it will work.  Thanks guys.

[2XL]

I have gotten crank baits from Europe that come with that tubing on the treble hooks. Some in the US have it too. I'm sure it will work for you. Like Tom said, I hate to push business to Wal Mart but you can buy long sections of the air hose relatively cheap in their pet supply department.

[efishnc]

Wire sheath? Clear air line for aquarium air pumps?   Slide it over the hook point then cut it off if you can't pull it off. Popper body corks. Small Alligator clips dipped in that electric wire connector stuff. Basically it's liquid plastic/rubber.

Denny, I was going to suggest a garden hose washer with a split (to not fold the freshly tied feathers backwards), but I like the tubing idea better as well.

[Slow Burn]

I have used pencil erasers when changing out hook on my top waters. Works well and you can reuse. A pack of pencils is pretty cheap

[mike27]

that a good one....  and you can have all the cold air you want from the northeast