Brilliant thanks for that, I have read it a few times,
I'm still only just getting comfortable paying over a fiver a pack of hooks I'm not ready for Jason Hayward prices yet π otherwise I probably would use them, baby steps lol,
I do think the ib hooks I've had so far have been pretty good tbh they are sharp, I don't like the coating on the hooks though, I dunno they feel cheap,I bought some unsharpened ones too and they don't sharpen very well,
I've ordered some size 5 chods, size 5 curves x 2 and a pack of long shank curves in size 6, I am also not sure the longshank curves will be ideal but I use shrink tube on my multi rigs and strip the loop completely of coating, so I am hoping that it may act a bit like a blow back rig also, but having tried a curve it didn't make much difference to the rig as a pop up, still sits the same with a similar stance but it looks more subtle and a bit less shark hook like π³π¬ and would work as a wafter rig too