Making Fish Hooks 

Ok now i want to see a vid of you fishing with them to see how well they work. Good vid keep them coming.

I forged some, a bit different on the eyelet style. Had to do it for a blacksmith class too. Thanks for the video.

Cool video

Cool interesting video! I made some panfish hooks today actually. What I used was pliers, wire cutters, and a pin :)

You are right! I am actually taking a class and as one of the assignments we had to forge fish hooks LOL.

Thats so cool, got to try it for my self. I make lures but never a hook.

Thanks! I am doing the same blacksmith project and this helped a lot! I cant wait to get my hand made fishing kit together and use it. I appreciate the video. Keep them coming!

What a great little self reliance project!

Have made hooks out of safety pins before and also used them to make a fishing arrow coupled with a field tip too. Actually decent material for this and never hurts to have a few of them in your gear to hold something together should the need arise.

Very good.! I'm a self-made fish hooks

Defiantly cool little project

Very cool bro!

That's the spirit! Keep it up!!!

They are old snips. Have about 25 pair of them LOL My dad owned a sheetmetal company.

You are so smart

Yes, some what to the left. Thanks for the comment!

You used the cheap mild steel baling wire, it is too soft to work well.You can get water harden steel wire from McMaster Carr. The wire is soft on the spool, but harden in water when the heat is right. You should put the EYE of the hook on the opposite side of the point of the hook, so the fish can take the whole hook. Never Hit a hammer with another hammer, you hit the EYE of the hammer, the weakest point & you should wear safety glasses when working with metal. Never use a lighter to lite a torch, use a flit striker like welder use. You should never use multi tool near a flame, we welder use a channel lock to handle hot metal & only one pair, the heat soften the metal over time & they are only good for holding hot metal after that. You should get a store bought hook as a pattern when making hooks. Google works well to fill in any gapes, we all have to start some where. I found a hook & lure DIY book in a used book store for pennies on the dollar.

Hey guy. Nice video. Very innovative and it's honestly got me interested. I'd like to see how much dead weight they hold.

Don't listen to these idiots. You had a good video on instructing how to do basic fish hook making. This is a great resource to prep with. If you have little money and this stuff laying around, easy task. Campfire could be used easily enough and any good woodsperson would have a way to cut through and sand the wire. Great pointer on heating and dousing the hook. My only concern would be if the eye would pull apart. Fishing salmon here, I'd probably double up the eye hole. Would love to see the results of using your hooks. Which ones with what type of bends worked better and what not.

wow this is awesome man im gonna try this

Thanks, you've given me a few ideas.p.s. i have caught fish with a snap(barbless)while waiting for sturgeon,,on a hand line,i was bored

I wouldn't use tin snips to cut wire....My farther-n-law read me the riot act for doing that cause it would make a divot on the snips and when you go to cut sheets of tin it would leave a burr.

I'm thinking you could also make hooks from wire clothes.hangers too.

This guy sound really southern. (in a good way)

Great video. Do you make sinkers too?

Have you tried bending the loop at the bottom of the hook out the the side a little? It would work a little like a circle hook and help the hook to rotate and hook into the fishes jaw. Just an idea

Nice work but I doubt they are strong enough, looking at the way you easily bent those wire.

Fuck Yeeaah!!! That's Cool

What kind of cordage do you use to tie your flies?

Because if you do not have hooks, you need to know how to make them.

whats the best and cheapest guage wire to do this

On that British guy's Bushcraft series, he was in Alaska or British Columbia, and the native American was making a redwood or cedar wood, using water (steam) and fire (heat), he made the biggest of a wooden hook, that looked like a longshoreman's hook (!). It was used for catching of all things 100+ # flounders in the Alaskan waters. So think about looking for cedar, redwood, sequoia, even pine, fir, or hemlock, and making a bonfire made wooden fish hook with enough sharpness to actually catch fish. In Pacific waters, those laser edged hooks now have a red shellac finish on them and fish think they are tiny redworms and chow on them hard! So if you have redwood or cedar colored wood fish hook, you might just be able to do fresh water and/or salt water fishing and catch without bait !!!! So slice off a wooden sliver the same as a salmon or trout hook, then using a hot water soak, steaming it in the fire, and bending the hook eye, and the hook bend, you can set the heated wood into a finished cool shape, and it will remain that way ever afterward, much like our ancestors' steam wood furniture, or bow and arrow steamed/fire heat molded hunting bows. So finish off the hook tip and you will have a wooden fish hook for real. Better to have these than metal rusting hooks, as they can always come in handy for any other needle purposes as well.

nice

Oh yea, I plan on trying them out! Thanks for the comment!

what type of wire

Other thing you can use is a paper clip

Any offsets

Your eyes look too big for the hook. Have you fried using a spaded end instead. And also alot of modern hooks have a slight twist on the bend. Try that out

but you have wire, tin snips, mutlti tool, torch, needle nosed pliers, ect.????? I think ill swap all that for a 3 gram $1 pack of No14 barbed hooks. big hooks catch big fish! little hooks catch big and small fish! like I say yours are too big for a survival situation. just saying.

Your eyes look too big for the hook. Have you fried using a spaded end instead. And also alot of modern hooks have a slight twist on the bend. Try that out