Hook proportions make or break the 'looks' of a hook. In my eyes the Mustad 37160 is an ugly hook. In your eyes, who knows

My only use for them, in quite large sizes, is to do wire worms for deep fishing on river floats. Not a favorite way of fishing, but on dog days they can rescue the fishing for sure!

The hooking characteristics, in smaller sizes, can only be described as mediocre at best in my experience. Unaltered the point of the hook is in the same line as the eye, so in conventional terms these hooks have a zero gape. Offsetting the bend makes for better performance, but looks are a lost cause. I much prefer more gradually curved scud style hooks.

Cheers,
Hans W


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