Hook integrity?

[Jig Man]

I have a couple of thousand 90° jig hooks and only a few 30° ones.  I have a specialty mold modified to take the 30° hook. I use it for shaky.  On a whim I decided to try to make a 30 from a 90.  It worked without the hook breaking. The stressed metal will be incased in the lead.  I’m thinking that I won’t have any problem with the hook breaking using 12# line.  I don’t want to bend 50 hooks and find out that this is a big mistake.  Any of you have experience along this line?

Edited December 23, 2021 by Jig Man

[rustedhook]

1 hour ago, Jig Man said:

I have a couple of thousand 90° jig hooks and only a few 30° ones.  I have a specialty mold modified to take the 30° hook. I use it for shaky.  On a whim I decided to try to make a 30 from a 90.  It worked without the hook breaking. The stressed metal will be incased in the lead.  I’m thinking that I won’t have any problem with the hook breaking using 12# line.  I don’t want to bend 50 hooks and find out that this is a big mistake.  Any of you have experience along this line?

I bend hooks all the time. Mostly Mustad’s in standard wire and light wire. Never had a problem. Be careful if the hooks you are bending are Gamakatsu. They seem to be a little brittle.

[Jig Man]

They are EC.  I’ve done from 30 to 60 and 60 to 30 but never gone this far before.

[azsouth]

I have bent quite a few, as you are aware...you are creating a stress point at the area of the bend.

I have had decent luck with doing this but have lost some very large fish due to failure at the stress point, so just know that anytime you do this failure is very possible.

[Munkin]

I have bent a lot of hooks when I can't find what I want.  Best advice I can give is to not rebend the hook but bend it in a new spot. 

 

Allen