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06-27-2009, 04:22 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,644
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Originally Posted by Rob Rockcrawler
I I wish it was just bent then i would have a good souvenir and a story to go along with it.
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like this rob? i got my butt handed to me wed night.....4/0
Last edited by afterhours; 06-27-2009 at 04:37 PM..
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06-27-2009, 09:18 PM
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Great White Scup Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the Corner...
Posts: 2,251
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Quote:
Originally Posted by afterhours
like this rob? i got my butt handed to me wed night.....4/0
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Don, that is total heartbreak,,,, That happened to me last year on a VMC hook,,,,, |
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06-27-2009, 09:59 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Drag to tight?
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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06-27-2009, 10:18 PM
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eh! What do you mean?
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tiverton
Posts: 763
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Something to think about...
A buddy of mine saved $8 on 100 """ VMC "" 4/0 hooks 
This was about 3 weeks ago.... he bought them on "flea-bay"
He was going to give me 20 of them for "replacements" but before they hit my box i cut 1 and the eye popped... i also broke the solder joint on another... I gave them back to him and told him to get his money back because they were not VMC hooks...
He got a reply back from the seller telling him that he needed to read the auction and it was "LIKE VMC HOOKS"... Chinese knock offs... |
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06-28-2009, 04:10 AM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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Seen this before. Thailandese, Chinese, 99.9% of what they put out is cheap crap to rip you off. Alot of this on Ebay. Even with every day products like batteries, razors, etc. Some of the counterfeits are so good that you can't tell the difference in the packages.
Even the vmc quality has not been very good in the last few years. Broken, missing barbs, bad points, misbent.
I wish Eagle Claw made saltwater grade treble hooks, it'd put these guys to shame. I think they make some of the best hooks in the industry.
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Originally Posted by leptar
Something to think about...
A buddy of mine saved $8 on 100 """ VMC "" 4/0 hooks
This was about 3 weeks ago.... he bought them on "flea-bay"
He was going to give me 20 of them for "replacements" but before they hit my box i cut 1 and the eye popped... i also broke the solder joint on another... I gave them back to him and told him to get his money back because they were not VMC hooks...
He got a reply back from the seller telling him that he needed to read the auction and it was "LIKE VMC HOOKS"... Chinese knock offs... |
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06-28-2009, 10:09 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,851
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Scotty, EC does. I bought 2 boxes of 4X 4/0 trebles 2 years ago. I cannot remember where but they were black not silver or nickle. I do remember that they were very expensive. Like more than $1.00 per hook. Hook number is L777G-4/0
I bought them on a lark as I wanted to put black hooks on some black metal lip Dannys I made.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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06-28-2009, 10:30 AM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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That's the problem Paul they're not going to stand up to saltwater like the permasteel is.
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Originally Posted by piemma
Scotty, EC does. I bought 2 boxes of 4X 4/0 trebles 2 years ago. I cannot remember where but they were black not silver or nickle. I do remember that they were very expensive. Like more than $1.00 per hook. Hook number is L777G-4/0
I bought them on a lark as I wanted to put black hooks on some black metal lip Dannys I made.
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