As the DS hook I have been using is a Daiwa's circle hook (live bait hook)
fine wire in black for 3 inch Power Micro clawer on spinning gear. My
fishing
water is open water. The circle hook increases the catch ratio than regular
worm hook.

I also painted eyelet less salt water hook in sliver to red by red oily pen
and used
for the DS but not sure the red made muck more strike than silver or black.

I also have a few Daiichi Worm hook in red which were given my friend in the
US but not used for DS so far because of a little biger size for 3 to 4 2
staright finess worms.

Hiromi

"RichZ" wrote in message
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Instead of the partly cloudy and mostly calm day (today), I chose the
bluebird sky, high wind, post frontal day to go fishing this weekend. All
morning long, I pretty much couldn't get bit on anything other than a
jerkbait. And only one of the fish I caught would have gone even close to
2
pounds. But then I got one good trip down a certain stretch of weedline
that produced a couple slightly bigger fish, so I stuck it out a bit
longer. Then the jerkbait bite died. When it did, among the options I went
through was drop shotting, and that proved to be the ticket. 9 3 pound
class fishin in about an hour and a half saved the day. But in the middle
of it all, I broke off my DS rig. When I retied, I gabbed one of these
hooks a buddy gave me. Red Diacchi Straight Eye, Straight Tie, Wide Gap
hooks. The fact that thye were red didn't seem to hurt or help. they got
bit as regular as the black Gammy I'd been using. But I lost 3 of 4 fish
I
hocked on them, and two of them felt like really good fish. After the 3rd
self-unhooker, I took the time to retie with my preferred DS hook, and
didn't lose any more.

Can't really say that they are inferior, but I sure won't be trying them
again.

RichZ©
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