by lumpy » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:43 pm
the main reason for tying on larger flies is that it is significantly easier to tie a more effective pattern on a larger hook as you have more shank to work with, i.e it is quite difficult to tie baitfish patterns from one point on a shank as would be the case with smaller hooks. also if you have a 6 inch bait fish pattern i cant see the reasoning in using a size 6 hook.further more, because you generally have breezy conditions when swff you often get hooks catching off rocks on the back cast, lighter guage hooks like size 6 or smaller get bent quite easily, whereas larger size 1/0 and 2/0 tend to last that little longer.
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish
regards neil