Blood/Bleeding Lures/Hooks

[hl&s]

I have experimented with blood/bleeding hooks and lures for some time. For example, 2 identical spinnerbaits the only difference being one has a red hook, the other a black hook. 2 identical DT 6's, one with a red treble, the other with a black treble. Bleeding tubes and all white tubes.

I have never noticed where the blood/bleeding lures/hooks produced any better. I've tried them both at the same time on the same spot and both produced fish equally. Also, since red is the first color to disappear as a lure falls down through water, how could blood/bleeding colors have an advantage ?

What's your results with these colors ?

 

[jon]

O'neal Williams they explained it like this on his show last weekend while fishing with the Shakespeare Rep: Red disappears first only if it's translucent or light passes through it like mono. Hooks and baits are solid, so they don't fall into the same dissappearing act....

He's sponsored by Cajun Red and Daiichi so I'm sure he gets asked allot....

 

[drumking]

I like the bleeding hook jigs in the 1/32oz size when I crappie fish, but I don't think that it makes any difference. I can catch them on bronze hooks just as well. I just don't like gold hooks for anything.

 

[blazer]

i have on a couple of occasions been fishing a rattle trap and loose a few fish and land a couple on the rear hook,and than change the front hook with a red one and start hooking fish with the front hook.it made a believer out of me.if i change to red hooks on a rattle bait or crankbait ill only change the front hook.try this and see if you start landing more fish and if they are hooked on the red hook.

 

[RRB32]

I've experimented with the red hooks several times on various baits and I have not noticed a huge difference between the two.

 

[HangnMoss]

I've seen an improvement in my hookups on crankbaits since I started replacing the front trebles with red hooks. I rarely replace the back hooks with red, unless they really need replacing and I only have red spares. The fish seem to target the red hooks, so I see more fish with the front hooks buried, instead of just the back hooks. I've also had problems with fish pulling free from the front trebles on fat-bodied or round-bodied crankbaits, especially since I've started using red on the front. When I'm replacing the front trebles on fat-bodied crankbaits, like a Mann's 1 minus, I'll either upsize the trebles, or hang the new trebles from a split ring to get the hooks further away from the body. Something else that I've been doing that seems to help with hookups is to oversize the eyes on my crankbait. I purchase Sharpies in metallic colors and keep them, along with a black Sharpie for the pupils, in my tacklebox so I can modify or touch up crankbait eyes on the water. Predatory fish seem to target the eyes, and enlarging them seems to have helped with hookups on the front trebles.

 

[SeqBass]

I haven't noticed any better results out of red hooks. The fish are either "ON" or they aren't.

 

[skeeter07]

I like the red hooks alot > i have replaced alot of my crankbaits with one red trebble hook . And as far as the cajun red line I have it on a bunch of my rods

 

[Chasin'bait]

HL&S,

I have used both with great success. The only major difference, is when I'm fishing for trout. The Daichi bleeding bait #'s 10 and 12 bait holder hooks outproduce 2 to 1. That red seems to really make the difference.

A lot of times when I'm wade fishing, I can see the trout when it actually runs up and picks my bait up and runs. The bronze will still attract them but the red keeps them there and interested for a good bit longer.

 

[Triton4Bass]

The scent probably has as much effect as the color. Just my opinion!