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Survival Fishing Hook Challenge! Hooks Made From Bobby Pins #11946516 11/22/16 06:25 PM
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Decided i wanted to try to catch a fish on something other than a store bought hook so i took some of my wife's bobby pins and went about shaping and sharpening them until they resembled fishing hooks. I did this for fun and too see if i could make a fishing hook out of everyday items in a theoretical survival situation.
I took both of my kids to the lake near my house and gave my home made hooks a shot at one of my common carp spots since my favorite bass spot was covered up in boats.
we managed about 6 or 7 bites on carp with sweet corn as bait in about 2 hours on the water. i found the longer shank hooks i made were too easy for the carp to bend out, but the smaller hooks i made were just about perfect.
a carp hooked itself and stole one of my rods over the side of the boat and after that a few minutes later we caught and released a nice little 4 or 5 pound common carp proving that you could make a functioning fishing hook out of a bobby pin for small fish

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Re: Survival Fishing Hook Challenge! Hooks Made From Bobby Pins [Re: SharkBaitTV] #11947843 11/23/16 03:08 PM
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I gather a barb is not necessary for keeping fish hooked.
Beautiful children by the way.

Thanks for the innovation. I do the same with soft plastics and it's amazing how many more fish I've caught with new shapes and lure actions regardless how active the fish are.

Re: Survival Fishing Hook Challenge! Hooks Made From Bobby Pins [Re: SharkBaitTV] #11948020 11/23/16 04:48 PM
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I like the simple gorge hook made from wood. In a survival situation, you can virtually always find a stick. Cool idea about using bobby pins though. Well done.


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Re: Survival Fishing Hook Challenge! Hooks Made From Bobby Pins [Re: SharkBaitTV] #11948120 11/23/16 06:06 PM
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SharkBait, I sent you a pm, could you be so kind to reply? Thanks.

Re: Survival Fishing Hook Challenge! Hooks Made From Bobby Pins [Re: SharkBaitTV] #11956018 11/29/16 03:30 AM
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Cool vid


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Re: Survival Fishing Hook Challenge! Hooks Made From Bobby Pins [Re: SharkBaitTV] #11970486 12/07/16 04:17 AM
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Nice post. Thanks for sharing. cheers


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