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yea ok I have no clue what I'm talking about. They still didn't have the damn hooks back then. whatever.
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"My point though is that you don't need 6x hooks for stripers, they didn't have them 50 years ago and look at the size of the fish back then. It's only because of the newer technology lines like braid that you need to change to 6x hooks and usually because the drag is too tight or there isn't a long enough shock leader. They are about double the cost of a standard 4x hook also."
You blamed braid and tight drags for people straightening 4/0 hooks and said people didn't straighten 3/0 hooks 50 years ago, implying that they didn't use braid and tight drags. Which they did. People straightened plenty of plug hooks. That's why many of the top guns used rigged eels to make those eye popping catches you see in those old pictures. Back then, though, they didn't bitch about it on an internet forum with tens of thousands of people reading about it.
I've straightened plenty of treble hooks on mono and glass rods.
I'll bet I could straightened a 6/0 treble if a fish was hooked just so.
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