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Originally Posted by pricecb
Bet I could make a few million selling magnetic hooks. To the pilgrims.
"Reduces hardhead bites by 99%!! only 7.99 for a pack of 4"
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It's not that effective. Our preliminary study showed the magnetic hooks did not reduce the hardhead catch at all in still water. In moving water, 33 hardheads were caught on the non-magnetic control and 9 hardheads were caught on the magnetic hooks. So there might be a significant reduction in the hardhead catch rate, but it's definitely not capable of reducing the hardhead catch rate to zero. And the magnets are a couple of bucks each.
If the magnetic hooks significantly reduce the catch of gafftops also, they might be attractive to folks running drum trot lines where every gafftop is a missed opportunity at a drum. But other than this, the main application is reducing shark bycatch rates in waters with sharks.