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02-22-2013, 06:14 PM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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Sorry, another dumb question.....
So here's a dumb question...looking at some bucktail dressed siwash hooks, and noticed they were open eye hooks. Is this a bad thing, and should I be crimping them closed? Or is this nothing to worry about. Also, where can I get some higher quality colored one's? I seems like there's limited choices out there unless you know someone who does custom tails.
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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02-22-2013, 06:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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It's only a bad thing if you don't crimp them closed.
If you're going to make plugs I'd learn to make your own. It's pretty easy and the materials are cheap. It also gives you the option of using a split ring with a closed loop eye.
-spence
Last edited by spence; 02-22-2013 at 06:47 PM..
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02-22-2013, 06:53 PM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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do you just use a pair of pliers?
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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02-22-2013, 07:12 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Yup.
Get out of work and go to Plum Island event tomorrow....
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02-22-2013, 07:30 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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They are much easier to crimp closed with a vise, particularly 5/0 and up.
You can make your own tails very easily with a bucktail, a cheap bobbin, some hard as nails nail polish, and some flytying thread ( flat waxed nylon is good). Clamp the hook in a vise or with a pair of vise-grips and have at it.
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02-22-2013, 08:56 PM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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hahaha.....would love to Ross, but the wife would have my ass! lol
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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