Wire mill hook size?

[chsheffield 10]

hi been fishing there a few times now and am going again on saturday, i have been fishing with size 16/0 hooks and seem to have a feeling that a different size hook would be better, getting bites but not many takes, is a size bigger/smaller better?also does anyone who a better place to fish? heard locksley dam in hillsbourgh is good, is this true?

 

thanks,

[animal2477 10]

what bait are you using on the 16 ??? if your using maggot,caster piece of worm use a 18/20,pellet or corn 16/18 depending on pellet size you'll also get away with a 20 for corn aswell and try using a hook length with a smaller diamiter 0.12 should be ok

[chsheffield 10]

using mix of maggots, worms, corn, so you are saying a smaller hook ?

[animal2477 10]

using mix of maggots, worms, corn, so you are saying a smaller hook ?

 

yes mate try scaleing down your hook sizes,go down to a 20/18 and feed little and often with maggot

[chsheffield 10]

k, will get some size 20 or 18

[animal2477 10]

get a pack of both,start with the 20's and see how you go

[0742Sheff 10]

I used to catch using a size 18 with a small pellet. For maggots i would never go over a size 20. For corn i would usually use a size 18. For worm i would go down to a size 16 but i never really had any luck using worm on Wire Mill.

 

What seemed to make the biggest difference for me was the diameter of the hook length. I ended up using a pre stretched 0.8 line in the end.

 

That was a few years ago though.

[chsheffield 10]

caught one on worms last week on size 16/0

[matsalleh 10]

I hair rig 8mm pellet on a 16 hook