I kow in a lot of areas a small tiny hook is not the eaisest thing to
find. SOme folks use salmon egg hooks and others use a hook which
looks like a segment of a circle. You can always take a hook (as small
as yu can find), and heat it with a cigarette lighter to red hot and
use a needle nose pliers to reform the hook point to shank distance
to a smaller dimension, and then squeeze in the barb. Heating will
take the temper out of the hook which may be a problem if your trying
to catch dinner or looking for that world record fish, but a one time
deal on a aquarium fish it should not be a problem.

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:43:33 GMT, Wayne Sallee
wrote:

It's no joke, a tiny hook works best for the most
aggressive fish, ie the one that will be the first to take
the bait.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



KurtG wrote on 12/17/2006 7:25 PM:
Tristan wrote:
Short of a spear gun or dynamite Damsels are tough fish to catch ;-)


The 2 liter bottle trap caught my coral beauty and the offending damsel
in about 3 minutes. He's already in my quarantine tank.

I hope you weren't kidding about the fish hook. The smallest I could
find was #10 and it was just too big. Although, I almost nailed a Tang.
I pulled out the hook in the nick of time.

However, I gave up wondering if it was a joke. :-) A smaller hook
would have worked.

--Kurt




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