Buy our award winning fishing lures at www.escalure.co.uk .These fishing lures are guaranteed to improve your catch rate successHook Eyes: (“loop” at the forward end of the hook) The place you tie your line or clip your swivel or leeder. Eyes can be ringed, tapered, looped, open, flatted, swivel or needle. Eyes can also have alignments which are either straight or ringed, turned up or turned down. Shank: (section that begins at the first point of the bend to the eye) Bend: (section of hook that bends around Gap: (distance (size) from the point to the shank) Throat: (distance from the bend to the point)It is important that you realize that gap size and throat length will either help or hinder your hooking of your fish. Now that we have the definition of a hook done, we can move on to bigger nuratrim fish.Hook Styles: If you took all hook shapes or styles you could probably put them in 3 categories, live bait hooks, artificial bait hooks and manufacturer use hooks. Live bait hooks include Octopus, O’Shaughnessy, Straight and Aberdeen. Artificial bait includes Aberdeen, Sproat and Kahle. Manufacturer hooks are used for making artificial flies, jigs, crankbaits and spinnerbaits.Circle Hooks: Circle hooks are really a must if you practice catch and release. Let’s take a look at what happens when your fish strikes. The mouth opens wide and your fish swallows your bait and hook into its stomach or gut and then starts to swim away. Your hook and bait is then pulled back where it penetrates the lip area.Other style hooks will just penetrate in the gut area and that’s where the problem rises.





