Small Streamers

[buckeyetier]

I guess this is a two part question. The first part would be, what is the smallest size streamer that you fish? Secondly, if you tie your own, what model of hooks do you tie them on?

[OkieBass133]

I tie and fish baby clousers down to #16. Believe it or not, little fish eat littler fish And sometimes the big fish eat 'em too.

[Panman]

Size 12, Mustad 9671

Tim Anderson

[Eight Thumbs]

buckeye,

I will go down to #14 on a fairly regular basis. I use whatever Mustad hook I have with the desired shank length. I also have some old boxes of Herter's hooks that I will use every once in a while. 8T

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[lee s]

Like OkieBass133 says big fish eat little fish, and big/little is quite relative. we once saw big fish (about 2") eating little fish (about 1/4"). Quite a frenzy to witness. I suspect a #28 or #32 would have been necessary to immi the "little" fish...#32 and ONE strand of pearl flashabou or krystal flash.
We regularly use #12's, but....?
...lee s.

[Spyderman]

To answer part 1, I often tie streamers as small as a #12 TMC 300.

To answer part 2, I took a look at my hook boxes and my streamer box. I guess the hook I have recently used the most, mainly for Clousers and Crazy Charlies, is a TMC 8089.

Strangely (at least to me) in looking over the hooks I noticed that the #10 TMC 8089 and the #2 Mustad 3366 are very close in both size and shape. Hmm.

Spyderman

[Varden]

I have had good luck with size 14 black woolly buggers.

Randy Knapp

[Gigmaster]

Clouser Bucktails on Mustad #94840, size 12. For crappie, there's nothing better (at least around here). OD on top, very, very sparse black in the middle, and white on the bottom. Put a drop or two of Smelly Jelly 'baitfish' scent on it after every fish. or every 10 casts, whichever comes first (usually it's after catching a fish).

Semper Fi!



[This message has been edited by Gigmaster (edited 26 January 2006).]

[BobC]

Peter Frailey's incomparable Baby Buggers (and others) sizes 12 and 14. Mustad R72, TMC 100R and Daiichi 1560s. The TMC is more for leaded versions rather than bead heads, but all work very well in warmwater streams, smallies to panfish.

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Bob

[gadabout]

I generally tie them down to a size 12. I use Mustad 9575 most of the time.