whats your take on "the hook will rust out in a few days" saying
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just re read that again 
anyways
so check this
not sure what the white spots on the water are
so the bronze hooks look real rusty,alum ones nothing.
i pull the bronze one out and wipe off...
the outer coating is rusting,not the actual hook.
looks like its an aluminum hook with a bronze coating.
if thats the case,it will never rust!
"last 2 pics are of the freshwater bronze hook"
im sure a pure steel hook would rust.
but the 2 common hooks,bronze and alum,will never rust!
so do ya think this myth is busted? i do
thanks for tuning in for this episode of mythbusters,mfk style.
About two years ago my dad took my grandma out bass fishing and my grandma caught a bass that had a hook in it's lip and another one coming out it's butt. That would not have felt good going through. I'm guessing the hook never got a chance to rust seeing as though it was swallowed.
I have to tell you guys this great story and provide a picture of a fish that I hooked, and still have in my tank 5 months later. First I went catfishing here in montana. Being that there is only a handful of small species of catfish I was limited to what I could do. I was using medium sized hooks to try and keep smaller fish from biting, but catfish and those large mouths prevailed. I hooked them all too deeply to retrieve the hooks. So what's a guy to do? I felt bad to leave them like that so I though why not put them in my spare 30 gal and see what happens. 2 were stonecats, and one was a black bullhead. I did what the manufacturers suggested and cut a length of line off that hangs outside the mouth to keep the hook from turning in the gut, or gills. After about a day or two all fish were eating healthy despite having rather large hooks(in comparison to their bodies) lodged deeply inside them. After another week one of the stonecats died. I disected it, and the hook was mostly dissolved where it was in the flesh. Another week and the other stonecat died. Another dissection I discovered that this hook had rusted all the way through, but the piece that broke off had ruptured the intestines and bile had filled the fish. It had rusted through in only like 3-4 weeks though. These were bronze circle hooks btw. The third cat which I still have 5 months later is my female black bullhead. She laid eggs in the tank and I hope to catch her a mate next year. The day after the stonecat died I noticed the line laying on the bottom of the tank from the bullhead. I picked it out of the tank and it had half a hook all rusted up. Never saw the other end, but I can say that my bullhead has grown from 7" to 9" in 5 months, and eats 3 large shrimp every night. There's no signs of anything being wrong with her, and she eats from my hand. Here's a pic of her. Wish I had taken pics of the rusted hooks now lol.
6 months later
one looks like it would break now,
but only one of the bronze ones.
the aluminum colored ones only have some rust that got attached to it.
and the other bronze one just has surface rust.
so it looks like the bronze ones are the best to use.
one looks like it would break now,
but only one of the bronze ones.
the aluminum colored ones only have some rust that got attached to it.
and the other bronze one just has surface rust.
so it looks like the bronze ones are the best to use.
Way to keep on with the test!!
The "bronze" finish is a polyurethane coating, thin and cheap, thus the reason for it degrading quickly.
The "aluminum" finish is either a tin or nickel plate (probably nickel) over a similar steel hook as above, but provides much better corrosion protection.
Both hooks will rust eventually as they are both steel.
Are you going to continue the test until the nickel plated hook rusts out too?
Burt
The "bronze" finish is a polyurethane coating, thin and cheap, thus the reason for it degrading quickly.
The "aluminum" finish is either a tin or nickel plate (probably nickel) over a similar steel hook as above, but provides much better corrosion protection.
Both hooks will rust eventually as they are both steel.
Are you going to continue the test until the nickel plated hook rusts out too?
Burt
