Replacement Barbless Hooks are necessary if you fish in the growing number of areas that allow spin fishing but require barbless hooks. Some areas require single hooks. Cover both bases with these replacement barbless hooks.
Also called "single hooks" or "replacement single hooks," they are available barbed as well as barbless, and they are available for spoons and for plugs.
Replacement single hooks intended for spoons have horizontal eyes. The hook on a spoon is attached with a split ring, and the horizontal eye on a single hook for spoons will orient the hook properly. When replacing treble hook with a single hook on a spoon, attach the hook so that the hook points up when the convex side of the spoon faces down, as shown in the following photo.
When retrieved slowly, a spoon will wobble rather than spin, and the convex side of the spoon will face downwards most of the time. That causes the hook to face upwards most of the time, greatly reducing the chance of getting snagged on a rock or log.
Replacement single hooks for plugs have vertical eyes to orient the hook properly with the plug. The tail hook should point up. There is a difference of opinion on whether the front hook should point forward or backward. Forward will give more positive hook sets, but also increases the chance that a plug will get snagged on a rock or a log.
Please note: when replacing treble hooks with single hooks on plugs, be sure that the two single hooks cannot get caught on each other. If you replace both trebles with single hooks on a 50mm plug, use the S-55M size 10 hooks. If you wish to use size 6 or size 8 hooks, remove the front treble hook and replace the rear hook with a single hook.
For those who want to replace treble hooks with single hooks, but do not want to go barbless, C'ultiva has single barbed hooks.
Size 6
12 hooks - $4.00
Size 8
12 hooks - $4.00
Size 6
11 hooks - $4.00
Size 8
12 hooks - $4.00
Size 10
12 hooks - $4.00
Replacement single hooks, size 12, mini-barb
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International shipments are taking weeks longer than normal and tracking does not seem to be working.
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Russia
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UK
Finesse-Fishing.com no longer ships to the UK. The new VAT regulations are too onerous for a one-man shop that rarely ships anything to the UK anyway. I apologize.
Australia and New Zealand
The US Postal Service has suspended all shipments to Australia and New Zealand.
There are two alternatives. One is the same price as the USPS had been
(as calculated at checkout) but may take 3-4 weeks. The other is UPS,
which is considerably faster (3-5 days), but also considerably more
expensive. If you want the faster, UPS shipment, I will send an invoice
for the required amount.
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