Making your own assist Hooks

[jig42na]

Junior Jigs
You keep your boat at Seaview Harbor. I think I talked to guys one day after the Elephant bight. I think you said you did 2-3 days straight out there. I was in a Parker that day.

[JuniorJigs]

yeah i remember it was a great tuna bight we went out Friday, Saturday and Saturday. I was exhausted Monday morning. We killed the tuna that weekend. I think our final numbers for that weekend was Friday 4/5 then Saturday got there earlier and went 10/11 with 2 double header and 1 triple header and Sunday 3/4 ...

[jig42na]

Cool I figured that was you when I saw the 33te cat. It funny I was just talking to a friend yesterday about the fishing that was had there for a little while. Its a shame the amount of boats on it though. But the first run of fish were some really nice size fish.

[captdavdavis01]

In my "Hatteras blackfin 18feb09" report, you'll see a jig with no hook. This was a store bought jig witht he hook attached from the retailer. I cut the heat shink off of one last night and they are attached using the "overhand" knot on the hook shark and loop fed through the hook eye method. There was no glue on the one I cut open.

Hopefully everyone that is making there own is glueing theirs, Id hate to see anyone loose a quality bite because they forgot or skipped a critical step.

Danny

[Sea Draggin]

Hopefully everyone that is making there own is glueing theirs, Id hate to see anyone loose a quality bite because they forgot or skipped a critical step.

I discovered that not glueing them is the standard production method. Thats why I took the time to do this entire thread two weeks ago.

Glueing Jig Hooks

[John from Madison CT]

In the last couple of days I've been experimenting with different types of assist hook rigging. Here are a couple observations:

1. Many prepacked hooks you buy are rigged very differently than what we make. I have a few like OTI's and Gamakatsu's where all they do is lie the line along side the hook and wrap it with thread. It's probably glued too.
While time consuming for me, I made a couple this way. Remarkable that they hold a lot of pull. You wouldn't think this technique is acceptable, but it works.

2. I tried Gman's technique of forming a single overhand knot in the line and using this to carry the load. It works with a double line, but utilizing this with a single line I found they often failed under strain. I was somewhat surprised by this, but be warned that it may not work.

[Taz575]

Ok. Finally got some pics and did some testing of the stuff I got. I got the Hoodlums from Mustad in 5/0, 6/0, 7/0 mainly for inshore (fluke, stripers, bluefish, etc) and the Owner Gorilla's in 7/0 and 8/0. I have the Gama HD Live Bait coming in today as well. I purchased some 400# kevlar, 3 strands twisted together. I followed GMan's instructions in the post and made some hooks:



Again, the grid squares are 1" for comparison purposes. Left is a 6/0 Hoodlum, followed by a 7/0 and 8/0 Gorilla. The 6/0 and 8/0 were tested on a spring scale, maxed out the 50# spring scale w/o bending. No signs of knot slippage either! I ordered some shrink stuff and need to get some larger sizes as well as super glue to finish these off, but I am happy with them!

This is where I got the Kevlar from:
http://www.unclemikesrocketshack.com...rds/Cords.html

I was going to use the stuff from APS, but it seems that all of their assist hooks and cord have been out of stock for a while now. Anyone know if they will replenish??

[gman]

2. I tried Gman's technique of forming a single overhand knot in the line and using this to carry the load. It works with a double line, but utilizing this with a single line I found they often failed under strain. I was somewhat surprised by this, but be warned that it may not work.

with kevlar it does not fail, I have tied and used probably over a hundred and never once seen any fail

[tormentor]

Thanks gman...
It really helps me a lot....

[sony guerra]

I tied the hook like a fly with cortland. I slide inside the cortland #20 ss 1x7 wire and loop the line like lider then i just tied it like fly, wrap around the hook and the line like 50 times with a nylon thread and glue it at end . they look like the shout hooks but they will have wire inside to safe you from loosing the tothty fish.
when you put the wire inside you can not do the knot anymore.works very good and is cheap if you buy the hooks online for less than 1 dollars, you have better product and nobody to blame other then you.
the little wire inside works very good because what it does is stop the fish for chewing the cortland completly and will leave like 160% of it plus the wire and you have almost full strengh to figth the fish. I said 160 because i loop the line thru the insde to double the strength.

no desrespect to Gman assit hook.