Korda - Krank Hooks

The wait is over… The Krank hooks are out now. Here’s an insight, straight from Tom Dove, head of product development who is the man behind this new pattern of hook.

For a long time, when I was a little younger, I would always suffer from a large amount of hook pulls. There is nothing worse than losing fish and that sinking feeling as the lead skips back along the surface is something I wanted to distance myself from as much as possible. One of the popular rigs at the time was the use of Wide Gape style hook, with shrink tubing accentuating the eye and silicone or a ring on the shank. This tubing would close the gape, which I didn’t really like and it was this setup that I had the most trouble with.

Whilst enduring these troubles, I came across the Kamasan B745 hook – a very effective pattern that put a stop to my trouble with hook pulls. This hook was completely different to everything else that I had used in the past; it had a sweeping shank with a very in-turned eye and a straight, offset point. The offset made the hook look gaped, so much so that it appeared ever so slightly opened out. As I often fish with critically balanced hook baits and relatively short hairs, this hook suited me down to the ground. My confidence soon grew and I went from gritting my teeth whilst playing a fish, to reeling them in like bream. As I gained confidence with this curve shank pattern I then slowly moved over to Korda's Kurv Shank, which was a newly released pattern at the time. Again, I had no troubles with hook pulls and particularly liked the size 6.