how to attach an eyeletless fishing hook?
Posted on Jul 01, 2010 under Fishing Hooks | 8 CommentsI bought a telescopic fishing rod kit (I am a complete beginner), but the hooks don’t have eyelets in them.
It came with a float, hooks, a small rubbery sleeve and a small metal ball with a slice out of it. I can’t figure out how to attach the hook, and it came with no instructions!
Can you help?
Hi, No problem…loads of hooks don’t have eyes. They have a broadened end instead.
You just wrap the line round the hook shaft using a knot called a hook snood. When you pull it tight the broadened end of the shaft stops it coming off.
It will hold heavy fish…no worries. The harder you pull it the tighter it gets.
Scroll down here to hook snood…it shows the knot being formed.
http://www.getbentsportfishing.com/helpful/tips-and-tricks/fishing-knots/ . . ..
You can use an ordinary half blood knot as well. Normally they go through holes like eyes in fishing hooks and swivels and that’s the normal knot to use for those.
To use one on an eyeless hook you need to loop the double line over the hook shaft instead of putting it through a hole and hold it in place with a thumb while you put the twists in it and pull it tight enough to grip the shaft.
Then put a stick or your fishing scissors or whatever through the hook to give you something to grip properly and safely and pull it tight. The broadened end of the shaft stops it coming off.
It will hold just the same as a hook snood. Here it is using a thicker rope so you can see what’s happening. Again, when you pull harder it tightens up harder.
It’s a bit like …I’ll never get how to do this.. for a couple of goes but keep on….we were all like that when we started.
http://www.ehow.com/video_4468104_tie-half-blood-knot.html . . . .
The small metal ball is a weight that just clamps over the line. Do it gently or you cut into the line.
The rubber sleeve can be used for a number of things.
It covers connections and swivels to make them smoother and stops things getting tangled up with bits of knots and protects them from wear and damage, and it can act as a spacer.
If you don’t want to use it just ignore it.
It isn’t essential until you can’t live without a bit!
You’re trapped then….hooked.
You’re an angler…..careful.
Weeks only get 7 days in them. You might be using a lot of that.
Here is some being used to make a pellet rig for barbel.
Get all the way through the pics…it’s a complicated one this for the real enthusiast….. a look at the future maybe haha…but it shows how inventive people can get when making rigs for a specific purpose. It just dangles a bit of bait under the hook.
Hook? What hook? Just tried a quick peck at that bait …felt OK, tasty that…no hook there…..ahhh, what the hell, take the lot of it…nothing wrong with that.
Gaaarhhh! Blinking hook got me. Where’d that come from?
It’s spy versus counterspy with angling…….careful fishy….hehehe
http://www.total-fishing.com/Features.aspx?Category=coarse&ID=The_Perfect_Pellet_Rig . . .
Fishermen are always looking for ideas….even about tubing. Here’s a forum . Tubing question.
http://www.carpforum.com/Shared/Messages.asp?TopicID=156400 . . . .
Enjoy the Fishing. Telescopics can be OK. I use one for trekking holidays sometimes. Fishing to eat.
……Edit for FishSteelhead
Hi, Not just in UK…I’ve bought those hooks in Far East too and round Europe.
Tiny to big…long shank and short.
Good for tying small flies. Less to hide, lays flat.
Biggest I had on one probably the grassies in the Singapore ponds….20lb or so.
Makes a good night out….food stalls, company if you want…careful though.
Plenty of 8-10lb salmon with them in Scotland and south of England.
Good in Scotland….decent smokeries too. Dunkeld…
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=w7b&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=dunkeld+salmon&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g2&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Haha…you’re welcome…in local Failte erriu niar Vannin
Different for me where you are too…have fun
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:32 am
How useful or accurate this website is, I cannot say. See link below.
References :
http://www.big-fishing-tips.com/fishing-hooks.html
July 2nd, 2010 at 1:08 am
Sorta’ got me over a’ barrel ie., hooks don’t have eyes in them? As for the small ball with a’ slit, it is known as split shot which is attached to the line bout’ 18′ (distance I usually put it) above the hook (spread/open the slit om split shot, place line in it and crimp with pliers to hold it on). Float is explained in the Fundamentals of Fishin’ link. As for attachin’ the hook I have givin’ you a’ knot that is easy to tie and one that I along with many others use ~ be called the Palomar. The rubber sleeve, that I am not familiar with, the exception be, is when I fish for a’ certain species it will be used with pencil lead/weight on a’ tri-swivel. Whoa’, am gettin’ a bit to complicated for what with ya’ just startin’ out. Good luck and hope that I’ve helped out a’ smidge <);-3
Palomar knot:
http://www.animatedknots.com/palomar/index.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.com
Link below is for those who are just startin’ out. Go through it and you’ll find the ABC’s of fishin’ along with givin’ you other answers that you may want/need, much better than I can behind this computer keyboard ~ guaranteed…
Fundamentals of Fishin’:
http://www.angelfire.com/ia3/fishing/sitemap.htm#whichhook
Added: Put the cart before the horse amd posted my response before seein’ the UK flag soooo, best wait untill someone from your neck of the woods comes along and gives a’ bit better info., than myself…
"Hey", Goop’s only tryin’ ta’ help my man, only tryin’ ta’ help buttttt you did follow up, now didn’t ya’ ie., "Added"…
Back aaaa’gain: thumbs to jonal for the links and learnin’ me about a’ completely different way/method of fishin’ from across the Atlantic…
References :
Myself and a’ FEW years…
July 2nd, 2010 at 1:41 am
Try this website
http://www.northamptonneneanglingclub.co.uk/Knots.htm
I would suggest you buy yourself a a packet of eyed hooks , or get a Matchman hook tyer , I’ve had one for years and wouldn’t be without it .
Hey FishSteelhead , Where do you Americans put the line on your hooks ! oh yeh through the little eye at the opposite end to the point , wish I’d thought of that,
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July 2nd, 2010 at 2:02 am
Hi, No problem…loads of hooks don’t have eyes. They have a broadened end instead.
You just wrap the line round the hook shaft using a knot called a hook snood. When you pull it tight the broadened end of the shaft stops it coming off.
It will hold heavy fish…no worries. The harder you pull it the tighter it gets.
Scroll down here to hook snood…it shows the knot being formed.
http://www.getbentsportfishing.com/helpful/tips-and-tricks/fishing-knots/ . . ..
You can use an ordinary half blood knot as well. Normally they go through holes like eyes in fishing hooks and swivels and that’s the normal knot to use for those.
To use one on an eyeless hook you need to loop the double line over the hook shaft instead of putting it through a hole and hold it in place with a thumb while you put the twists in it and pull it tight enough to grip the shaft.
Then put a stick or your fishing scissors or whatever through the hook to give you something to grip properly and safely and pull it tight. The broadened end of the shaft stops it coming off.
It will hold just the same as a hook snood. Here it is using a thicker rope so you can see what’s happening. Again, when you pull harder it tightens up harder.
It’s a bit like …I’ll never get how to do this.. for a couple of goes but keep on….we were all like that when we started.
http://www.ehow.com/video_4468104_tie-half-blood-knot.html . . . .
The small metal ball is a weight that just clamps over the line. Do it gently or you cut into the line.
The rubber sleeve can be used for a number of things.
It covers connections and swivels to make them smoother and stops things getting tangled up with bits of knots and protects them from wear and damage, and it can act as a spacer.
If you don’t want to use it just ignore it.
It isn’t essential until you can’t live without a bit!
You’re trapped then….hooked.
You’re an angler…..careful.
Weeks only get 7 days in them. You might be using a lot of that.
Here is some being used to make a pellet rig for barbel.
Get all the way through the pics…it’s a complicated one this for the real enthusiast….. a look at the future maybe haha…but it shows how inventive people can get when making rigs for a specific purpose. It just dangles a bit of bait under the hook.
Hook? What hook? Just tried a quick peck at that bait …felt OK, tasty that…no hook there…..ahhh, what the hell, take the lot of it…nothing wrong with that.
Gaaarhhh! Blinking hook got me. Where’d that come from?
It’s spy versus counterspy with angling…….careful fishy….hehehe
http://www.total-fishing.com/Features.aspx?Category=coarse&ID=The_Perfect_Pellet_Rig . . .
Fishermen are always looking for ideas….even about tubing. Here’s a forum . Tubing question.
http://www.carpforum.com/Shared/Messages.asp?TopicID=156400 . . . .
Enjoy the fishing. Telescopics can be OK. I use one for trekking holidays sometimes. Fishing to eat.
……Edit for FishSteelhead
Hi, Not just in UK…I’ve bought those hooks in Far East too and round Europe.
Tiny to big…long shank and short.
Good for tying small flies. Less to hide, lays flat.
Biggest I had on one probably the grassies in the Singapore ponds….20lb or so.
Makes a good night out….food stalls, company if you want…careful though.
Plenty of 8-10lb salmon with them in Scotland and south of England.
Good in Scotland….decent smokeries too. Dunkeld…
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=w7b&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=dunkeld+salmon&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g2&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Haha…you’re welcome…in local Failte erriu niar Vannin
Different for me where you are too…have fun
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July 2nd, 2010 at 2:21 am
Massimo-
Jonals got you covered, but I wanted to add a little bit and a few links.
eyeless hooks are big in japan.also fly guys use them, with a straight shank. We fished them snelled a lot in the surf when we were kids. they were cheap. the end of the shank is usually flattened and looks kinda like a spoon, tie the snell underneath that.
Source(s):
http://www.troutandsalmonhooks.com/produ…
http://www.tsurishopjapan.com/index.php?…
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July 2nd, 2010 at 2:29 am
Eyeless hooks are new to me.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 3:08 am
sounds to me, that tthe hooks with out eye holes are painted jig heads, if they are u just have to dig the pant out of the hole.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 3:15 am
here is a step by step video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Im8×3i2Nk
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youtube