Hook Sizes

[Bill B]

So I have a box of assorted hooks in the shop.  Hooks that had been used, cut off and dumped into the box, loose hooks at the bottom of the tackle box, hooks retrieved from someone else's snag, well you get the picture....just a bunch of miscellaneous hooks with no way to identify them.  A search through the inter web yielded a useful chart that gives an actual measurement of the hook gap.  I will admit the chart stops at 3/0, but the measurements of the 0/0 series of hooks is pretty straight forward increasing 2 mm for each size. 

Here is the link. http://fishing4everybody.com/r7.html

And here is a picture of the graph......Bill

[Cuttyhunker]

Here's the VMC Hook replacement guide

[Gfish]

Hook sizes, good. There's whole buncha styles, too. Will check it out and see if there's something worth referencing.

FishingBooker.com  Fishing Hooks 101, Parts, Sizes, Types and More. Still don't know how to post a "tap on it" reference...

[Bill B]

Here's the VMC Hook replacement guide

Very valuable information, thank you....Bill

[philaroman]

KIRBED vs. REVERSED...  discuss 

[oc1]

They are both offset; just in different directions.  Offset hooks are thought to hook-up more easily.  I say they hook-up better from one side, but cannot hook-up better from both sides.  I don't like them because the offset weakens the hook and makes it want to spin when pulled through the water.

[quabbin boy 62]

thanks, guys this will save a lot of time taking hooks off and comparing them to a chart

[philaroman]

KIRBED vs. REVERSED...  discuss 

They are both offset; just in different directions.  Offset hooks are thought to hook-up more easily.  I say they hook-up better from one side, but cannot hook-up better from both sides.  I don't like them because the offset weakens the hook and makes it want to spin when pulled through the water.

I was too lazy to start a proper rant & was tryin' to get an "offset guy" to do it for me...
NOT, an "inline guy" to shut it down -- thanks for makin' me do my own work, ye non-soaker 

point being, I DO like offset!  vastly superior for stationary/suspended bait & lighter leaders
(when minimal strength loss & tracking true are not relevant), because of the way the hook rotates inside the mouth, during hook-set

on the rare occasion that direction of offset actually matters, I WANT BOTH OPTIONS!!!
w/ the modern "offset -- customer not need know which way" descriptor, HOW DO I RE-SUPPLY???
when/why were old kirbed/reversed designations abandoned?  ...rant aborted

incidentally, for ye cast/retrieve guys, a two-hook lure or tandem rig w/ 1kirbed+1reversed,
can still track true overall, without rolling, but w/ a little desired erratic action

[oc1]

Sorry Phil.  I didn't know.