Making your own assist Hooks

[gman]

What do you think of Owner Gorillas and Jobu's, Gamakatsu Tuna hook tin or regular, or their Live bait heavy duty hook, or Mustad 7732's, 7691DT? I'm set up with Merrick, thats why I am looking at those brands!

out of the ones you mentioned I would probably use the first which is the owner gorillas. IMHO the Gamakatsu, the mustad and the Jobus are either too long or to narrow.

I used two Jobus, zip tied together in Panama as a treble hook and they definately do work but for jigging I prefer a shorter hook.

[Sea Draggin]

its hard to judge hook sizes as some manufactures vary a lot. For instance the shout hooks are 7/0 but is the equivilent to a 13/0 siden hook.

Gman,
Here is a good picture of what you are talking about. The 10/0 heavy hook on left and 10/0 feather hook on the right.

[gman]

Gman,
Here is a good picture of what you are talking about. The 10/0 heavy hook on left and 10/0 feather hook on the right.

Now thats what Im talking about both will do but I love that feather hook see the nice angle, cutting point and wide gap. Thats a winner in my book especially if you can get a little glow on the feather ... deadly

[GanderVA]

Phosphorescent Flashabou is available from alot of fly tying material suppliers. Cableorganizer has heat shrink tubing in a variety of colors,diameters, and shrink ratios. Glow in the dark includes luminous and luminous green and neon in pink, yellow, and green.

[ffoley]

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My pleasure glad you enjoyed it. I would use 50 size kevlar, its hard to judge hook sizes as some manufactures vary a lot. For instance the shout hooks are 7/0 but is the equivilent to a 13/0 siden hook. So my suggestion is take a jig to your local tackle shop and find some wider short shanked hooks that are wide and start there.

Flatsides are a very very productive jig BTW any other questions fire away

Thanks for the feedback GMAN. This is what I am thinking with these style jigs, let me know what you think...

All these pics are on 8 1/2 x 11" paper so you can get a feel for the jig length - they are all fairly long and heavy. I like it that way because we drift 50% and they don't scope that way.
While we are drifting/chunking we already have 4-5 rods deployed and I want to stay out of the way with the jig.

Item 1:12oz hammer jig with a single or trebble...this is what we have been fishing lately with decent success. Some pulled hooks. Would you add assist hooks and dump the single?

Item 2: Flatside jig...I am thinking 2 assist hooks with different lengths.

Item 3: knife jig has a hook, but I want to replace with 2 assist hooks different length

I was never too enthusiastic about jigging when chunking, but I am becoming a believer after seeing what can happen when you get the fish under the boat

[gman]

I would suggest one assist hook only on those jigs.

Also can I give you a tip?

If you want you jig to go straight down while dropping on a drift pinch the line between your thumb and index finger. The sllight tension will make it go vertical instead of horizontal even with heavier currents I can still get down quickly with a lighter jig

All three of those jigs will produce I would put a shorter shanked single on the hammered or a 3/0 or 4/0 st76 trebel hook

[Taz575]

Ordered a few packs of different sized Gorillas and some 120827BLN mustads to try for lighter fish (Cod, striped bass, bluefish, mahi, etc) if they won't be strong enough for tuna. I have a ton of weight lifting stuff, so I may see exactly how strong the kevlar and hooks are!!! I found Kevlar cord thru some Model Rocketry websites, 400# stuff is incoming, 20' of it for under $17 shipped IIRC. They have 400 and 600#, as well as 1000# stuff available! Is any type of superglue OK??

[Sea Draggin]

Any type is ok. Over the years I have used every kind available to do spectra windons and handcuffs, which is basically the same thing.

[KeepItReel]

It is amazing that that little overhand knot doesn't slip. I guess the superglue is the key?
About how much does it cost per hook to make these?
Thanks.

[BretABaker]

i think unwrapped assist hook is better as well for speed jigging. for tuna i prefer slow jigging as i've had better success for YFT with this method.