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gravel crappie jig

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1442:
well that one was a stone hook with a modern soft plastic French fry wacky rigged

Trapper Rob:
Looks good.
How are they to keep from breaking?

1442:
They don't break unless they collide with the side of the boat or hang a barbed wire fence on the back stroke. That's the only way I have ever broken them while fishing. The biggest I've fought with them have been four pound class largemouth bass and I failed to land either of those, but I've caught quite a few up to 2-1/2 pounds and loads of small bream perch.
I've got pics of pull tests I did with them once with a leather strap looped over the hook point and pulled to fiftteen pounds for the bigger sized ones and I pulled ten pounds on some small ones.
I think I could actually pull twenty pounds on the point of this crappie jig and it wont break.
I've been called a liar and fake and other stuff over these hooks because they just seem like they would be hard to make, break easy and can't possibly hook fish. But they aint, don't and do.

Trapper Rob:
As far as making them do they break very easy?

UtahChippewa:
I think I might have to go to Texas and bring home a load of gravel. Sweet hook. We don't have that kind of gravel in Utah

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