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January 16, 2020 Joshua Roca Post in Fishing Leave a Comment on How To Sharpen Fishing Hooks Better Than New! | Bass Fishing

How To Sharpen Fishing Hooks Better Than New! | Bass Fishing

Glenn May here with BassResource.com and I'm getting ready to go on a fishing trip, and I just thought of a tip that I think is going to help you out. It's going to save you some time on the water and some money too. What I'm talking about is sharpening hooks.

Now, it's kind of a surprise to me that

I found out through the forums and on our Facebook page, and going on road trips, that a lot of people want a hook that comes dull. They just throw it out, dig out a new one, retie, and they go back to fishing. Well, I've been sharpening hooks for over 30 years, and I can tell you it's a lot quicker, faster, to sharpen your hook, and I can get the hooks sharper in many instances than they were when they're brand new out of the package.

 

I know you're calling B.S. on me, but honestly I can. And I've even had people tell me, no, no, no, that hooks got a special shape to it, you can't sharpen that, or it's been chemically sharpened, or it's got some certain kind of hook point that comes from the manufacturer, you can't sharpen it. Listen folks, once the hook becomes dull, how is it working for you? Yeah, it's not.

So, you can't hurt it at that point. You can't damage it, but you can get it back to how it was, and a matter of fact, you can get it even sharper sometimes. As a matter of fact, I check hooks right out of the package, and every once in a while you'll find one that's a little bit duller than the rest, and I'll touch that right up even before I've even used it and I'll get it sharp again.

So how do you do that? Well, first off, you get a file, a hook file. You can get one of these at your tackle store.

They don't cost very much. I've been using these for years, and years, and years, but a new thing that I've been using lately . . . I was turned onto this by one of the guys on the forum, thank you Gary, is to use a knife sharpener. This is cool, comes with a little sheath. It's got a fine and a coarse side to it and the cool thing about it is it's got a little channel. Can you see that right there?

That little channel right there is for hooks. Pretty slick. You don't have to use that channel. You can just use like a regular file, but it's kind of neat and because it's got a fine and a coarse side to it, you can sharpen hooks really, really fast. Now, I'm not sponsored by these guys at all.

This one happens to be a Smith's, cost me 15, 20 bucks for one of these things, It was really cool, but you can sharpen hooks really fast. Now the way to do it, now remember, hook points are like needles. They're shaped like that. They're not like this, they're not like a roof of your house, they're shaped like that.

So remember that when you're putting the hook to the file. You got to keep a low angle to it, about a ten degree angle. So, what we're going to do is we're going to take this hook, got a little jig head right here that we're going to sharpen, and you're going to put it real low. Again, there's that low angle, you see that? Real low angle.

I'm almost flat to it. And then you just apply pressure and you go towards the hook point, not away from it, towards the hook point and you just sharpen it just like this, you know, maybe you can even hear it on the microphone. You can hear it pick it up. So, you just go across that and then as you're doing that, you work your . . . you turn it slowly, slowly, slowly, all the way around. That's all you're doing.

You're just turning that hook point and all I'm doing is I'm applying pressure as I move it forward. I'm not applying any pressure as I pull it backwards. Now after you do that, check the sides. Bring the hook point through your fingers, not through your fingers. Pull it backwards through your fingers so you can feel the sides and see if there's any edges to it, any sharp points sticking out to the side.

If there are, run it back through the file until they're gone. Once you've done that, take the hook, apply a little pressure on your thumb and drag it across your thumbnail. Now, if it just scratches the surface, congratulations, you've done a good job, you're on your way, you're not there yet. What you want to do is you want to feel it dig into your thumbnail. You really want to feel it try to . . . you want to feel that resistance.

Push down on it and see if it really digs into your fingernail. That's what you want. If you want to grab a brand new hook and see if it'll do that, and you'll get an idea what it feels like.

But that's essentially it. Now, again, some hook points are shaped a little differently. Some of them like the Trokars are at an angle like that. That's the only time we'll do it a little bit differently.

Rather than slowly turning that hook point all the way around as I'm sharpening it, I'll find that flat side. I'll roll it on that file until I feel that flat point and that correct angle, and I'll just sharpen right, just that surface, and then I'll flip it over to that other angle and I'll sharpen just that surface too. And trust me, you can get it mighty darn sharp doing that. All right. That's the only change I'll do.

Otherwise, I've sharpened all hooks just like that. So there you go. And when you're done, you can sharpen that hook a lot faster than it's going to take you to retie, rerig, trust me, your buddy is going to be doing that and you're going to get 10, 20 casts on him before he's ready to go again.

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January 15, 2020 Joshua Roca Post in Fishing Leave a Comment on Colby Davis of Boston at the Newport International Boat Show

Colby Davis of Boston at the Newport International Boat Show

Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles. I'm Christon and we're here at the 2019 Newport International Boat Show with Lia Davis Lombara from Colby Davis of Boston. It is a fantastic jewelry line. Please tell us more about it.

My jewelry line is sterling silver with glass enamel. It is all made in Massachusetts and the chains are all made in Providence. Every single piece as a lovely beautiful glass enameled cover.

On the back, you will see a message that corresponds to the design. For instance if you take a peek at our little new anchor design right here, on the back it is says, Love Anchors the Soul. This is the front, this is the back. They come in three sizes, small, medium and large.

You can mix and match, you can layer them and you can design your own specific style. Well you are going to see a lot of this product here at this show, almost everybody seems to be wearing it and believe me by the end of today I will definitely be walking away with a piece that I Iove. How do you make these, where do you make these?

We make them in Attleboro Massachusetts. We design them, myself and my two daughters. We have them all stamped and made in Attleboro so all made in Massachusetts.

All made in the USA. That's great! How did you come up with the name of your company? My two daughters middle names, Colby and Davis. Taylor and Lexi's middle names.

How long have you been in business? 5 years. How have they influenced you in your designs? In so many ways, I have my design style and they have theirs. We just collaborate together and we just try to make it work.

We are different generations so you can be a 90 year old down to a 9 year old and still wear our product. Men wear it as well. What are some of the men's lines? The will men wear the compass rose, some will wear the St Christopher's, some wear the anchors, so men will definitely wear our product.

That is really cool. I have a son, my daughters are triplets, my son will wear them as well. Both men and women. How many boat shows do you attend a year?

We participate in about, I would say about three Do you do any other conventions? We do the Greenwich Wine and Food Festival, the Nantucket Wine and Food Festival, so we do wine and food festivals plus we do boat shows. Plus we sell online, and we sell in stores.

We sell in about 100 stores in the east coast, between Massachusetts and Florida and west to about Illinois Do you get a lot of international sales on your website? Some, some international What is your website? Where can people go to find your product? [email protected] No, that's my email. No, no, I take that back!

She is like , don't email me! ColbyDavisofBoston.com Unless you want to buy product! Right, unless you want to buy product. What are your daughters favorite pieces?

My daughter Taylor loves the guardian angel and my daughter Lexi, she wears the sand dollar a lot and sometimes she wears the compass rose. I would say those are their tops and mine is the mother daughter knot. I love the mother daughter knot , which is this one. Oh I didn't know that is what that was. Yep, it says, Mother Daughter Ever Lasting Love.

I Iove that one, which we will all three will wear. They are great gifts. They are, they are wonderful gifts, they are good holiday gifts, great graduation gifts. Any single holiday or occasion that you can come up with. Do you have a fun history story about any one particular piece, something sentimental that somebody has shared with you?

I would probably say the guardian angel. There are so many people that either it's a really happy guardian angel story, where there is a new baby or something fabulous or sometimes it is a sad one, but it is still a great memento for them. It is touching. Yes, very touching.

Any interesting testimonials you would like to share with us. Where somebody has called you and said, Oh my gosh, this is.... I would say the sister one.

On the back it says God Made Us Sisters, but Our Hearts Made Us Friends, is always a huge one, we get lots of calls saying my sister loved this or I bought this and we have 3 or 4 sisters. Quite honestly the dog pendant, is a very good one. People loose their dogs or they buy a new dog, that is a huge pendant for us as well. What is your hottest selling item? By far, it would be the compass rose first, all the Celtic knots, the tree of life, the forever friends, the mother daughter are definitely amongst the most favorites.

The bee. I have seen a lot of people with the bee's on and in gold! What is the bee? On the back is says, Bee Kind, Bee Good, Bee Happy.

That is a popular one as well. I love the Bee, love love love. I saw someone wearing them as earrings. Yes, we have them as earrings, we have them as pendants, we have them as sometimes, you can wear them on a bracelet as well Do you have anything in store that you can share with us that might be up and coming for next years show?

We do, we have some great new , I don't want to say too much, just a little. Secret , Secret. There are some great inspiring, inspirational, meaningful, a whole new series of fabulous designs that is going to be , It won't actually be released until January.

They will be great! Stay tuned! What is your favorite boat show ever? This one! The Newport International Boat Show. #1 ! The best one!

It is really fun! It is really Fun! Thank you so much for joining us today, it was a lot of fun getting to know you, your history and your jewelry and I love this display , it is a boat It is a boat! Well thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you on Newport Living and Lifestyles

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