Personal Bust - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Bocephus · 10-16-2009, 07:33 AM

had a VMC siwash hook break in half about 2 weeks ago on a good fish. It was a replacement for the mangled original one. Didnt think that could happen to VMC's, guess anything is possible

Clogston29 · 10-16-2009, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Bocephus

had a VMC siwash hook break in half about 2 weeks ago on a good fish. It was a replacement for the mangled original one. Didnt think that could happen to VMC's, guess anything is possible

bet it was one of the stainless ones (as opposed to perma steel or whatever the regular ones are called) - those are very brittle.

Steve K · 10-16-2009, 08:11 AM

I agree with Sea Dangles and Nebe. Rather hook into something large and lose it than catch small fish every time out. The challenge is one of the things that keeps me getting up in the middle of the night to go fishing. You will learn from this. I lost a nice fish at my feet this year that swam away with a bm danny because my knot failed. I am retying all of the leaders that I am using for the rest of the season.