Advantages and disadvantages of crank hooks

The advantage of crank hooks is that the hook point is long, the barb is deep, and it is not easy to drop the fish, and the disadvantage is that the hook shank is long with a curved corner, easy to hang the bottom, and the small fish can't swallow it.

Luya crankbait hook selection and use of insight. No matter what kind of fishing setup you use, one thing you have to focus on in order to capture your target fish is the hook. As an important part of making direct contact with the fish and ensuring that the catch is hard to escape, there is no room for sloppiness with hooks.

The most common hooks we use are Sanben hooks, Chicken Claw hooks, Wide Belly Crank hooks, Narrow Belly Crank hooks, Straight Shank hooks, WACKY hooks, TUBE hooks, Weighted Cranks, JIGHEAD and so on and so forth.

Hooks and jigheads are often used on hard baits and are customized by the manufacturer for your target fish based on ratios, so I won't go into that here. Of course, some roadrunners like to tweak their hooks to their liking, and there's nothing wrong with that, but the effectiveness of the tweaked hooks remains to be considered.