Small Hooks are Safer?

[Jamie Armitage]

Guys, looking for options and advice

This is carp fishing sorry!
The local club has banned hook sizes over size 10
Due to people just dragging fish in?
We are talking about on average 10lb fish up to 18lb
Would you say a size 10 is safer? And less likely to let a bad angler drag in a carp?
Or my thought is a smaller hook will just be more likely to be pulled out of the fish's mouth and ripped out by a bad angler.
Causing mouth damage?

What's your opinion? safer?
Harder to hook them I would think? so safer in that aspect
Please give me your opinion I'm going up in front board tomorrow night to change their opinion

Cheers Jamie

 

[Richard Isaacs]

I think it’s a daft rule for afew reasons.
Firstly….. what is a size 10 hook?
I’ve seen tiny ones I’ve seen massive ones and I’ve seen every size in between. I could use a size 6 drennan super specialist and it would still be smaller than a size 10 drennan continental boilie hook. So if they are really going down that route they can expect a few bank wars by people claiming their hooks are indeed size 10.

Secondly it’s the rod and the line that do the cranking not the hook. Maybe their expectations are that a smaller hook will potentially straighten if too much pressure is applied. Education needed there if that’s the case as some size 10 carp hooks are big and stupidly strong.

Thirdly no to answer your question. Small hooks don’t prevent mouth damage and being small there is more chance a hook can indeed tear through on a hook pull if there isn’t much of a lip there being held. A big hook maybe does look brutal sometimes but they hold a lot of flesh and rarely tear through which is what you want.

Lastly if they are expecting people to use small hooks there will be more people scaling down to balance that tackle. This will obviously mean more break offs and more fish swimming round with hook links or worse hanging out their mouths. I think on carp lakes, particularly small ones lined with reeds you do need to have the gear to give em a bit of stick or again they’ll just obliterate your tackle by darting in the reeds.

 

[Bob Watson]

Committees are disproportionately made up of hen pecked Ken's IMO that feel the need to make rules to feed their self importance.

If they want to go down this route then they should apply the gape size which was applied to worm fishing for trout years ago (not sure if it still is).

Bunch of *******'s

 

[Tim Marks]

My local commercial has a max size 12 rule (amongst plenty of other mad rules).

Most of these committees are made up of people not fit to write fishery rules.

A while back I went to a weekend fishery management seminar organised by the IFM. There were about 20 people there from various clubs, none of them possessed even a basic knowledge of fishery management.