Anyone know where to get these

I have been looking everywhere to buy these pike hooks and can’t find them anyone know where to buy some

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The last time I got some of those was at vados bait in Blaine MN

Those are crazy, are they for really big pike or just some design that makes it tough for the pike to swallow the hook?

philtickelson wrote:

Those are crazy, are they for really big pike or just some design that makes it tough for the pike to swallow the hook?

Right? I’ve never seen such a thing!

I feel like that’s used for putting a decoy sucker on. Looks like it’d work pretty nicely. Otherwise, maybe put it on a tip-up and run it the full length of the sucker so the barb comes out of its back fairly far back?

Just as a heads up for folks. Those hooks are often called “pike hooks” or “Swedish hooks” and were used primarily because they held a dead bait horizontal. There are a number of studies that have been done comparing them to trebles or other single hooks and every study I have seen links them to HIGH hooking mortality rates. (See link below to a study done in the 1990s by the WI DNR that showed them to have a 33% hooking mortality rate compared to <1% for treble hooks) I think they have primarily been replaced by quick strike rigs that cause much lower mortality, yet retain the ability to hold a dead bait horizontal.

http://documents.mx/documents/hooking-mortality-of-northern-pike-angled-through-the-ice.html

Learning more on Ido by accident then other places by design.

Thanks Nick!

Here you go.

http://www.sportsmanswarehouse.com/sportsmans/Mustad-Pike-Hook/productDetail/Hooks/prod9999007178/cat101135

I have 4 of these left over from the old days…..worked so-so using smelt…..haven’t used one in many years….

I use them with shad and smelt I love using them I just found a couple in my grandpas old tacklebox and would like to get some more as far as the high mortality rate I take almost every pike I catch since they are mostly around the 24-30 inch range

I had about 50 of these hooks in the antique shop when it was in Red Wing. I sold them to a guy for a quarter apiece.

Quick strike rigs are much more effective and much safer. Better hook sets and like stated above, MUCH lower mortality rate. 6 hooks compared to 1? I’ll take the six. If you are still set on these, Sportsman Guide sells them and you can pick them up in their warehouse in South St. Paul.

Those look ridiculous

they look ridiculous but I have never broke one or had one bend on a fish these are the only hooks my grandfather ever used and they always got the job done

we used them growing up with frozen smelt. you have to be close to tip up and strike fast. They spit them out when they cant swallow bait. They do kill fish the cam action makes them go right into the top of the head right between the eyes. We switched to treble hooks in WI and did not worry about how the smelt hung horizontal vertical. The pike did not care but we caught more fish with most in corner of jaws etc.

Mwal

Ow crap now I feel old.